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...most excruciating ailments known to medicine, angina usually comes on after an emotional shock or physical effort. It often follows the same pattern: a piercing stab in the shoulder, a "squeezing" of the heart, lightning pains down the left arm, a drenching sweat, and over it all, a terrible sense of impending death. According to prevailing theory, angina is caused by constriction of the heart's blood vessels which cuts down the supply of fresh blood at the very time when it is most needed...
...concept of human liberty specific to this nation and passed on by tradition. "Those of our frontier were not concerned with the past. They were little bothered by tradition or custom; what stability and order they possessed came from the needs of the present, not from an inherited pattern...
...turned out that Rommel had plenty of planes. The British were also confident that their ground forces matched the enemy. One thing Rommel did, apparently, was to let the British exhaust themselves winning their "victories," then throw in his reserves to take the real victory. Moreover, he changed the pattern of desert warfare by stepping up the role of artillery. Before Tobruk's fall, when the British, confident of equal armor and equal or greater air strength, attacked Rommel's line south of the port, the German surprised them with a massive assembly of 88-mm. anti-tank...
...multiple projector for use against tanks. It fires 20 to 30 rocket shells at once. Tanks which cross its pattern of fire are in somewhat the same fix as a rabbit in front of a double-barreled shotgun...
...mother carriers—the Lexington and another, unnamed—waiting 100 miles south of Tulagi with a covering force of cruisers and destroyers. _ Two mornings later, scout-bombers sighted a Japanese carrier-cruiser force, about 180 miles north of the U.S. force. Attacking U.S. pilots soon saw a standard Japanese naval pattern: a big carrier (the new, 50-plane Ryukaku) steaming astern of two cruisers. The U.S. planes were still ten miles away when the cruisers' guns spat red and yellow flame. At four miles, the enemy anti-aircraft fire was thick and fierce. But the planes ignored the cruisers...