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...soldier's mother was to blame," remarked Billy. "She didn't allow him to be independent." A boy named Caleb thought the G.I. had deserted too soon: "If it had come to a showdown, the soldier might have shown more courage than he thought he had." John guessed: "Fear isn't always bad. Sometimes it's good. It makes you more alert...
Obviously, the two best college football teams were Army and Notre Dame. Which came first would be the subject of noisy, heated and sometimes liquid debate until their big showdown next week. Probably next in line, since both Texas and Tennessee dropped from the unbeaten ranks last week, was-of all things-an Ivy League team. Powerful Pennsylvania stayed in the race by sinking Navy...
...strike on the ground that the city's welfare was involved. One minute before George's deadline, Judge Walter P. Smart, a Democrat, forbade the strike, ordered top officials of the company's complicated hierarchy* to sit down with George. But the injunction only postponed the showdown. George called the injunction a mere "scrap of paper," struck anyhow...
...that he has given his wife only perfunctory attention for some time, preoccupied as he is with his work as a teacher and scholarly writer. They look forward to their vacation with quite different intentions: he to make up for his neglect, she to force a showdown about it. The showdown takes a form neither had expected when Grandin falls in love with a handsome Marine captain...
...partition plan was almost certain to split Jewish ranks. The extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang, neck-deep in guerrilla warfare against the British, would turn just as eagerly on Jewish "appeasers." In a showdown, moderate Zionists would probably have the support of Haganah, largest of the underground groups. The compromise note was already sounded by "Voice of Israel," the Haganah radio station, which last week condemned violence and "purposeless terror...