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Strategically, it freed six or seven British cruisers from the Mediterranean theatre for convoy work on the high Atlantic, perhaps even for Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham's new commend in the Far East...
...found it sick and frightened, got nipped on the knuckle. Still convinced the bridge would fight it out, he got back toward shore. He watched while it buckled up at an angle of 45 degrees. Vertical steel cables-the suspenders-crashed explosively as they parted. The great main cable, freed of its weight, tightened like a bow string, whipping the vertical cables into the air like fish lines. Reporter Coatsworth's car with dog inside plunged into the Sound. All five people on the bridge escaped, all badly battered. Professor Farquharson, retreating behind the towers, watched as the central...
...magistrates upheld the 260-year-old decision of Rex v. Broom and freed Foulds, who was carried from the court by cheering crowds...
...lost plenty in Flanders. Britain's small reformed Army would have more than it could handle in the face of a full-dress Blitzkrieg. The only way to beat the Blitz, argued Wintringham, was for 4,000,000 civilians to teach themselves how to fight democratically, efficiently and freed of the myths and snobbery of military convention. The only way to meet total attack is total defense. Britain must fight now not to the last Frenchman, not to the last British soldier, but to the last courageous Briton...
...Dukhobors bought horses, cows, tools-only to set free the animals and destroy the metal tools in a sudden burst of sympathy for their "little brothers" (the beasts) and "the men tormented in the mines." They even refused to kill grain-eating gophers, which they snared and then freed in other people's fields. Singing groups of Dukhobors often marched off into nowhere looking for the Promised Land...