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First A.E.F. reaction to the announcement of Yank was a squawk. U.S. troops in Australia griped at the title. They have already had fist fights with Aussies who insist on calling them Yanks. Most of those who got into scraps were Southerners, but other U.S. troops down under don't like the gritty name any better. To avoid unnecessary bloodshed, some Australian commanders have ordered their troops to lay off "Yank...
...could stop the convoys, but the convoys are still getting through. Recently the Germans sent the Luftwaffe's Field Marshal Albert Kesselring-who blueprinted the razings of Coventry and Warsaw-to Sicily, already bristling with German airpower. Kesselring had a blueprint ready for Malta, too; he cocked his fist and let fly across the short gap of blue water...
Oblique Chat. The women of London could not so easily forget. Housewives fretted about paying tenpence for limp lettuce and a shilling for fist-sized cauliflower. They muddied their boots and sprained their elderly tweed skirts poking around in wartime garden plots while they dreamed of home-grown peas and tomatoes, talked about with such annoyingly leisured learnedness in Mr. Middleton's column in the Daily Express. Still, it was pleasant to read about-more pleasant than to chat obliquely about the strange restlessness that spring seemed to have released throughout the nation...
...eighth day Aldrich lost a finger nail when a shark nipped his hand. A leopard shark was shot before a squall left the pistol corroded. Dixon batted one shark on the nose with his fist and drove it away...
...roomy Iowa City house, where his principal hobby was gardening, he lived in dignified semiretirement, entertained a continual stream of distinguished visitors, shook a gentle fist at Bohemia and the big cities, and preached the gospel of U.S. regionalism and the Iowa soil. More than any other U.S. painter, he had expressed the unashamed simplicity and dignified realism that lay behind the complacent, materialistic exterior of rural Midwestern life. Other painters might see and paint again the plain, practical beauty of the Iowa landscape. But Grant Wood had discovered...