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...irony of it is that I spend my time teaching students how precious is our freedom of thought, conscience and speech. I've tried so hard to show them that freedom of speech means more than being free to tell your neighbor that the Administration consists of a pack of fools, that it means also the responsibility for being informed, tolerant, and for keeping speech free. I've insisted in every way I knew that they must read and think and vote. So now my boys-and many are in service-are now out fighting for something they...
Already the Allies, from the hills they held, could see the towers of Florence some six miles away. When Jerry pulled out of these defenses he was expected to fall back around the city, leaving only a light rear-guard line. Allied artillery was carefully avoiding Florence, almost as precious to the world as Rome itself...
...battered Norman town, zealous U.S. sanitary officers pursued a putrid smell. They arrived at a storehouse, staggered back as the full power of 10,000 ripening Camembert cheeses oozed out the opened door. The officers commandeered a quantity of precious gasoline, saturated the building and its contents, stood back in satisfaction as one more apparent hazard to the health of troops went up in smoke. The frantic, howling owner did not speak enough English to make them understand that his stinking hoard really smelled just right...
...prices to clear the way for American whiskey and gin. In Manhattan, prices dropped 50? a bottle. On the West Coast, the drop was as great as 30%. The industry gossiped that distillers would open the whiskey spigot wider immediately, letting out as much as 15% more of their precious stocks...
...that he knows he dies." Caligula built two incredibly magnificent pleasure galleys, in which to float imperially on charming Lake Nemi. The galleys were constructed of oak, pine and fir, covered with wool, sheathed in lead, studded with the bronze heads of wolves and lions, marbles, mosaics, porphyry and precious metals. According to one legend they sank to the bottom of Lake Nemi with all hands aboard except Caligula, who was something of a practical joker. According to another legend they were stripped, allowed to rot and sink by successors to whom even the memory of Caligula was odious...