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Lieut. Walter Bowland knelt on the crest of our hill directing mortar fire. His judgment had to be fine, as Kelly was getting closer to the Germans...
Still more embarrassed were Government propagandists who had just issued pamphlets urging the Italian people to be as brave as the British were during the blitz. The Neapolitans had an answer for that. In the Cathedral of San Gennaro they knelt in prayer, mumbling: "Dear God. direct the bombers on to Rome. That is where Mussolini...
IRELAND In the wild glens of Antrim and in the villages, those who listened hard into the wind swore they heard the banshees wailing. On the turbulent streets of Belfast women knelt, keening and praying, and down in Dublin the Government of Eire proclaimed a day of mourning...
...reeceeeer--Mush!" Everybody suddenly turned on Vag and walked into him. He reversed as soon as he could, but the big guy behind him stepped on his heel and knocked his sneaker off. "Oh, that's all right," said the Vagabond, anticipating an apology, and knelt to put his shoe back on while the rest of his squad fought their way over or around him. The squad was far in the distance when another gang came stumbling over him from the east, and some old guy in boxing gloves threatened to turn him over to the F.B.I...
...About his body was a simple cotton loincloth, the thread of which was spun by his own hands. In one hand he held a rag, which he constantly dipped into a bowl of water by his side and wiped over his shiny bald head. About him followers and secretaries knelt crosslegged. Gandhi looked old as wisdom, skeleton-thin, sharp, birdlike; now all his teeth are gone. He seemed in remarkable spirits...