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...been hunched grotesquely in their bucket seats. Now they rose quickly, hooked up their release lines. Each man bulged with 100 pounds of gear-tommy gun, pistol, grenades, rations, cigarets, medical equipment, knife-bayonet. Over the side they could see the flat, rocky terrain. Inside the island of Sicily there were islands of fire-the fierce circles of flame left by Allied aerial barrages...
...thing had gone wrong right at the start; the undercarriage release gear jammed. Combat gliders use wheels only for the takeoff, then drop them and land on heavy skids. Failure of our release gear meant that we would have to land on wheels-and no brakes. At the time it seemed unimportant...
...clean-shaven upper lip in 15 years") is invisible in a poor light. He is cautious with his talk, and likes to take several puffs at his straight-stemmed briar pipe before answering a question. His friends joke that "Harold has only one speed: low gear." He works hard at his job, including most evenings, and has very little time for fun. When he does, he golfs or bowls a bit, but he prefers to gather his family at the piano for a sing, or to fix things around the house. His hobby is making furniture in his basement workshop...
...first the destroyer saw nothing more than the flotsam of defeat-empty gasoline cans, a soldier's kitbag floating, part of the landing gear of a German transport plane held up by a bloated balloon tire, a rubber raft on which a dead Nazi airman...
...economy from peace to war, some prices and wages must move if men and machines are to find their proper uses. (To try to run the U.S. economy with a completely frozen price system, Mr. Lippmann pointed out, is like trying to run a car without a steering gear...