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Earned Repose. He had earned his rest. Few men can ever have gone through more plain hell trying to find a place in the special hell of battle. Ben Kuroki's father was a seed-potato grower in Hershey, Neb., a town of about 500 people. Ben and his kid brother Fred (now overseas with an engineer outfit) volunteered for the Army two days after Pearl Harbor, were accepted a month later. Ben landed in the Air Forces and started to run his personal gantlet at Sheppard Field...
...angriest over sections of the bill which virtually repeal the Contracts Renegotiation Act. Said he: "They open the way to truly extortionate profits. I predict if they are enacted into law they will come back to plague not only the Congress but the war goods manufacturers. They hold the seed of a national scandal...
...This is no innocuous bit of pollen wafted idly on the currents of international thought. It is a seed already planted in many minds. OWI is as forbidden to speak lightly of Hirohito as it is to call Victor Emmanuel a 'moronic little king...
...bird now has its own personal maid, whom it summons either by name or by making a noise like a buzzer. A noisily temperamental showoff, it breakfasts on hard-boiled egg yolks and orange juice, later polishes off a raw carrot and a slice of banana mixed with mockingbird seed. Good performances mean good meals of grapes. But this diet has to be regulated, because Raffles sometimes gets grape-happy and will not perform at all. Raffles sleeps in a nest of hot-water bottles. Being a tropical bird, it could not live otherwise...
...Seed of the Martyrs. Periodically, the Roman Catholic Church and the Kingdom of Piedmont (the present Italian royal house) sent soldiers to exterminate them. The terrible Piedmont Easter massacre (1655) moved Oliver Cromwell to decree a public fast to show English sympathy for the Waldensians. Cromwell warned the Duke of Savoy that if such a thing happened again the British fleet would bombard Nice. The massacre also brought from John Milton his thunderous sonnet...