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Initial jubilation over the Solomons offensive seemed destined to go the way of the wild predictions which followed General MacArthur's arrival in Australia. It was not a case of "Here we go to Tokyo"; rather it was: "We are fighting like hell to hold on." Navy communiques, which last month optimistically had the Marines "mopping up" Guadalcanal, now said only "our positions remain intact"-without mentioning that those positions covered but 6,000 yards of beachhead, including a captured airdrome...
...times larger. As a boy Kalaf used to hunt the hajjel and he still has great affection for the bird. Says he: "By golly, this hajjel she is tough one. In Syria she roost on high bluffs and nothing can get him. She make hawk or eagle run like hell...
...officer commanding that island said his forces couldn't hold it indefinitely against a strong attack: the place is not big enough. "But the troops just pray for the Japs to come. They think they could make them pay a hell of a price, like the marines on Wake Island. They want to see what their guns and planes can really...
...knew she was his own daughter is apocryphal. They met at the train, and it was not until he had known her several minutes that he proudly declared that he was in love with her. Said John Barrymore to the press: "Isn't she lovely! I worked like hell on Hamlet and Richard III but she was the best thing I ever produced...
...directed by the editor to inform you that he will see you damned before he gives you more than ?5 for the article in question." Shaw replied: "Dear Sir, Please inform the editor that I will see him and you and the whole Chronicle staff boiled in hell before I will do it for that money...