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...Japs had been beaten off. But we hadn't. Here was something different. During mopping-up operations a detachment of marines on amphibious tractors saw seven Japanese off-shore on a coral reef and drove out to get them. As the amphtracks approached, six of the Japs knelt down on the reef. Then the seventh, apparently an officer, drew a sword and began methodically to hack at the necks of his men. Four heads had rolled into the sea before the marines closed in. Then the officer, sword in hand, charged the amphtracks. He and the remaining two Japs...
...brief former Presidency during the great depression, he had tried to up wages, make more jobs. His earnest voice, his fervid sermons against corruption, his glowing talk of more schools and better roads, of Pan American solidarity and Cuba for the Cubans, sparked an emotional tinder. Peasant women knelt before him, held up their babies for his touch. Many believed the myth that "honest Grau" would end taxes, rent, electric and water bills...
...They knelt on the hard, stone floor as Bishop Karl Morgan Block intoned...
...nippy in downtown Nelson that afternoon; nevertheless twelve elderly men & women stripped to the buff, knelt and howled. Passers-by knew that the sensitive Doukhobors had been offended again, were resorting to their favorite passive protest.* Among the onlookers stalked a bearded man, wearing 21 oranges in a double-deck crown held together by a net and three dingy white streamers which trailed along behind. The Czar of Heaven (Louis Popoff to the police) did not disrobe then, but he did insist on accompanying the six men and six women to jail. The oranges fell off in the excitement...
...Schachter), she has abandoned the piano, turned thumbs down on the movies ("There's more money in radio, and anyway, I'm waiting for television"). She gets along so well with Sinatra that when his crowding fans tore her dress recently, Sinatra called for a needle & thread, knelt down and sewed it up. "Did a very neat job, too," says Joan...