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...hopeless. Up the hill, under a white flag, came a shiny-booted SS officer. His ultimatum to the battalion's gaunt, lanky, black-bearded commander, Captain R. A. Kerley: surrender by 8 o'clock that night, or be destroyed-totally. Texan Kerley's reply: "Go to hell." Then he amplified: "I will surrender when every one of our bullets has been fired and every one of our bayonets is sticking in a German belly...
...course, most of you know it already, but she's back. Helen is back from her vacation and so again the corridor will be lined with gaping young wolves from 0850 to 0859. Yes, war is hell...
Nowhere in France had U.S. troops seen such wild jubilee, such fierce passion, such bloody retribution. At last the French believed that the Americans had come to stay. All hell broke loose...
...baffling even to his few admirers-"veins of pure gold imbedded in masses of unpracticable quartz," according to Coventry Patmore. Hopkins introduced new rhythms, perceptible to the ear but dizzying to the eye. He coined words ("inscape," "instress," "scapish"); isolated prepositions ("What life half lifts the latch of, What hell stalks towards the snatch of"); left out connectives ("Save my hero, O Hero [that] savest"). Though sensory details delighted him ("skies of couple color, as a brinded cow"), his principal passion was the relation of man and nature...
...Pacific, as they had in Italy, U.S. dogs of war were proving themselves. On Bougainville, where the dogs got their first combat test, many a Marine took a dim view of them. Said one: "The damned things would get loose and they would go around biting hell out of everybody." But by the time the Marines got to Guam, dogs as well as handlers were veterans; the Marines were more used to them...