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Strictly a family man with a wife and two baby daughters, Lamar spends his spare time fooling around with a hobby he learned from Harlow, that of interest in plant life. At the moment, a Christmas rose, which he swears will bloom in the snow, occupies some of that precious time which he doesn't spend one the football practice field...
...time had come for a change of daylight tactics. The old way was terribly expensive. The Regensburg-Schweinfurt raid had cost 59 planes; the second Schweinfurt raid had cost 60. Percentage of casualties had gone up to over 10%. No matter how precious the targets, the flyers and the fleets could not stand such losses. The Germans had come up with new rocket-bearing fighters which could lurk outside the range of U.S. .50-caliber machine guns. Flak was getting thicker...
...past (since Gisele's father had been the lover of the sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Englishwoman who dominated the colony), and into the future (since Gisele's brother Jacques is befriended and made over by the English in a ceaseless attempt to win him and his precious talents to their side). The plots and subplots that are interwoven with this main theme are weakened by a dreamy inconsequentiality; they seem to evaporate in the hot dry air like figures of Indian magic climbing the thin rope of the story and disappearing. For the spell of Indigo is hypnotic...
Then the mass moved toward the improvised canteen-all except the quietly smiling stretcher cases-for a spread of precious tea, coffee, hot milk, pies, buns, slab chocolate and 10,000 sandwiches that the women of Edinburgh and Leith had frantically put together the night before. Some noticed that the prisoners reached first for white bread and newspapers...
When the Red Army launched its offensives against Kiev and Melitopol in September, the Wehrmacht rushed precious reserves of men and tanks to these points over strained and inadequate railroads and highways. The Russians saw their opportunity, struck between the two cities at the soft top of the Dnieper bulge (see map), won a small bridgehead below Kremenchug...