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When Lend-Lease lard reached Moscow, the housewives thought it too precious for cooking, used it as a bread spread...
Most moving plea was by comely, 19-year-old Marie Barker, of Chicago, who wrote Eleanor Roosevelt: "Won't you ask the Army to send me a little of its precious life-saving medicine so that I may have a fighting chance? I am engaged to marry a fine man now serving in the U.S. Army." But Marie got no penicillin: doctors held that it could not save her because her hemolytic staphylococcus infection had affected the heart...
...escape Hélion faked a toothache, gained a few precious hours away from his office job. From under the fixed seats of three latrines he took his carefully hidden garments, changed from prison clothes to civvies. Then, with his prison coat thrown loosely over his disguise, he joined his mates in the yard to watch a minutely rehearsed game of volleyball...
...what to write? What would the avoid readers of the local news want to hear about the life and loves of the inmates of Briggs Hall? Were they truly interested in life among the WAVES or are they polite only in surrendering such precious space. Or could be they use us for filler...
...fate of their sons; pity the numberless families now bereaved of their fathers; pity Europe, over which broods such havoc and disaster. Do Thou inspire rulers and peoples with counsels of meekness; do Thou heal the discords that tear the nations asunder; Thou Who didst shed Thy Precious Blood that they might live as brothers, bring men together once more in loving harmony. And as once before to the cry of the Apostle Peter: "Save us, Lord, we perish...