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Still the people kept coming. Days afterward an endless procession still passed through the rock-strewn lot; a hundred men & women an hour knelt down at the place on the hill to ask for a miracle. For in the big city there were countless others who, like Joe, wanted something wonderful to happen...
...took only the first hour to make Manhattan realize the importance of elevators in its vertical, hurly-burly business life. While workers twiddled their thumbs, some nervously, some happily, mail and express packages piled up. Postal men knelt in the littered lobbies and handed out mail to clerks and executives they knew; express agencies had to halt deliveries. There was little extensive stair-climbing...
...that his face scar gleamed red, but he showed no other sign of emotion. Leaving the dock, he smiled and waved at his brother Edwin, a British civil servant. Edwin waved back. To bystanders the two gestures looked like Fascist salutes. But when William had been led away, Edwin knelt on the courtroom floor and made the sign of the cross...
There is a right and a wrong way to commit harakiri. In the case of General Anami and Vice Admiral Onishi, it is presumed that they donned the usual ceremonial robes, knelt on a dais, surrounded by friends and officials. When the jeweled hara-kiri dagger had been handed to them, they would have made many bows to the Emperor. Then they would have plunged the razor-like dagger into the left side below the waist, at the same time drawing it toward the right. They would thus have fulfilled the hara-kiri command: to die with honor, when...
Bach called for a sergeant: "Tag this fellow. Doc wants to get him out of here at once." The sergeant knelt before the wasted prisoner, who now sat at attention. Captain Bach spelled out his own name to the prisoner and then asked: "Where do you come from...