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...great classic retreats in the history of war. Bringing their dead and wounded with them in sub-zero weather, pursued by eight fiercely attacking divisions of Chinese Communists, the marines of the 1st beat their way to Hungnam and rescue in 13 days. But proper marines never refer to the march as a retreat; in the parlance of the corps, it is always "an amphibious operation in reverse," or, simply, "the breakthrough to the sea." One proper marine, Major General Oliver Prince Smith, whose leadership made the operation possible, immortalized the retreat (and himself) with a terse comment. "Retreat, hell...
...applying the knowledge toward a fuller life ... a greater tolerance for others who may arrive at their conceptions of God and truth in regions different from our own. The past is like a rear-view mirror of a car. If you drive carefully, observing safety rules, you must refer to it . . To insure [progress, we must insure] the freedom to explore, create, originate and improvise . . . This is why we've coupled religion and jazz, two of the mediums of communication which speak a universal language, and need no interpreters to touch the soul...
...grown, hard red and durum, and herds of beef cattle meander across far-ranging pastures, silhouetted against low horizons; here more than 40,000 shining combines work 63,000 well-kept farms. The farmers are apt to feel sensitive when casual visitors from lusher and more verdant places refer to their hard-worked land as a desert...
Though top-level strategy is hammered out collectively, execution and considerable power of discretion is often delegated to one committee member. Thus, Molotov at San Francisco agreed to pay half the cost of a U.S. plane shot down over the Bering Strait, after only the most casual refer-back to Moscow. Mikoyan, negotiating the economic clauses of the Austrian state treaty, accepted a sizable reduction in Austria's reparations payments without leaving the room...
...over to a lithographer to reproduce. The lithographer redrew most of it, adding dozens of new figures and buckets of gore (i.e., three dying soldiers being scalped) to what was once a fairly restrained, stilted scene. †A long-used diminutive that Busch barely tolerates. Most people who refer to him as "Gussie" call him "Gus" to his face. *Bottled beer, says Gussie Busch, should not be poured by dribbling it down the side of a tilted glass. The bottle should be tipped almost straight up so the beer surges into the glass, thus forcing the carbonation up through...