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Past us, on the roads and in the fields, rumbled Shermans (to deal with Jerry tanks), Crocodiles (British flame-throwing tanks) and Bren-gun carriers carrying canvas assault boats. It had been bitterly cold all day and drizzling. Now the combination of smoke and rain reduced visibility to almost nothing, so that a tank 80 yards away was invisible...
...This man, who through his own great efforts had kindled the flame of true Democracy in the hearts of millions of our citizens, was discarded by the Old Guard element of his own party even though he was the titular head of the organization. These citizens will not forget this act of betrayal, and the "crocodile tears" shed by Republican bigwigs and their obedient press over his passing will only tend to magnify their shortcomings to followers of Wendell Willkie...
...week's end the fires had died-all except the blue fountains of flame which still rose above broken gas mains. One hundred and twelve people were dead, 104 were missing, hundreds were homeless. Production in 39 Cleveland war plants was halted. Bulldozers clanked in the ruins, pushing over chimneys and walls, sloshing in lakes of black water left by the fire hoses. East Cleveland around the ruined gas storage plant looked as though it had been bombed...
Behind this ring of fire, the operator could watch until some soldier drew near, then touch off a hellish burst. Allied officials said the weapon shot a jet flame 15 yards, where it ballooned out into a ball of fire 40 yards in diameter. Jerry called it the Abwehrflammenwerfer (defensive flame-thrower...
Amber married three others (in due succession), became a rich, widowed Countess. That was her high estate when she met King Charles II. "His dark lazy eyes stirred the embers of desire, at which [her husbands] had rudely raked but never once brought into flame." Charles made Amber a Duchess and Lady of the Bedchamber, had her painted "on a heap of black cushions, unashamedly naked...