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...command would give him no respite. At high cost, Russian troops pressed across the river, struck blows so well dispersed that Manstein's thin reserves could not plug all holes. Zhitomir and Korosten fell. It was then that Manstein again displayed his tactical brilliance...
...packing breathlessly into their usually roomy elevators had been heard to exclaim: "Gee, this is just like Macy's." But Macy's, which seemed to contain most of Greater New York's population, calmly took on 11,000 extra employes, calmly took full-page ads to plug itself as "a late shopper's paradise...
Fighting in India, in the Soudan, in the Boer War, he walked or rode through many a space filled with pinging bullets. In World War I, German shells demolished a dugout five minutes after he had left it. Shortly after that, he was in a "Plug-street" (Ploegsteert, a village in Flanders) farmhouse when a shell came through the roof, wounded only his adjutant...
Helen Hayes, Ruth Chatterton, Gertrude Lawrence, Mary Martin and Myrna Loy merged histrionic fireworks to plug the National War Fund in a crowded playlet entitled Untitled. More sacrificially, they also put their charms together in a line and bravely faced the candid cruelty of a news camera (see cut). Silver lining for the actresses was the local (Manhattan) record of the Women's Division of the Fund: gathered midway in a drive for $800,000, with less than 20% of the prospects called...
Serapia did the trick: after reading her sad story, the children clamored to be vaccinated. Dr. Glusker, a gleam in his eye, went on to write a whole series of stories called Fabulas para Pedro (Fables for Pedro), a little boy who rarely passes up a chance to plug Dr. Glusker's hospital...