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...farmhouse, carrying a dead, half-plucked chicken, told the sympathetic farm wife that it was a long time since they had had chicken "like mother used to fix." She cooked the chicken for them, served it on her best china and linen with vegetables, cake and precious butter of her own. After the boys had uttered their profuse thanks and departed, she found that the chicken had been taken from her own henhouse...
...German units changed their route again & again, wasted men and precious time. Zhukov began to push them off the roads, compel them to accept battle in swamps. The orderly retreat had been turned into flight. Heavy equipment was left behind. Supply trains clogged up the roads...
Typewriters were just being invented, and were so precious that the office locked theirs in the safe each night. The future Governor of the Bank of England discovered the combination, burgled the vault nightly, practiced on the typewriter for hours until he was an expert...
...engineering job, involving destruction of the great, three-deep system of dikes and dunes known to Dutchmen as the Watchman, Sleeper and Dreamer. (In London Dutchmen were already talking of a compensating slice of northwestern Germany if war's end finds any large portion of Holland's precious topsoil ruined by German-inflicted floods...
...bread and honest advancement. We have no reason to love war and we don't fight with the dizzy enthusiasm shown in 1870 and 1914. We love our work and know that war is a roaring cataract between us and our future. We hate it because it steals precious years, banishes our life aims to an unknown future and upsets all our plans. But because of this hate we must say yes to it. ... Our enemies can hardly even attempt to demand this 'yes' to war from their people. Yet the word embodies . . . Victory...