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Then the guns open up, concentrating on the crest. For five minutes they hammer and rock the earth. The general calls another break. In 15 minutes he signals again: this time he wants a slow barrage to cover his infantry crawling up the mountain. It comes in a steady drumfire...
When Rundstedt launched his counteroffensive in December, the Allies had to pay for their mistake. But, with their eyes open at last, they set out to pay a rock-bottom price. By quick and brilliant action, they stopped the German drive and shoved it back...
...same Madonna again & again, Velasco concentrated a lifetime of work on one stretch of landscape: the Valley of Mexico. He always saw something new in its pines and pepper trees, the pure, cold light, the ancient volcanoes, the cactus maguey and prickly pears, the insubstantial clouds and the hard rock. Velasco's love for the valley was not merely esthetic: it was founded on his knowledge of botany, geology, religion. He always read a Psalm before he tackled any major work; it added a touch of mysticism to his solid realism...
Nothing remained where the Mont Blanc had been. A half-ton fragment of her anchor was found three miles away. A gigantic rock, torn from the harbor bed, killed 64 workmen on a pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion crushed people to pulp or tossed them high. The walls of a school fell in on 200 children before they could rise from their seats. Countless fires started, merged into one. The toll: 2,000 dead, another 500 never accounted for, 20,000 injured. Property damage totaled some...
...rock-candy mountain...