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...Grimley and Al Butler, both in NROTC, form the experienced nucleus of those who have already applied for their Eastern Slope Amateur Ski Association memberships...
Three flyers climbed stiffly down from a C-47 transport at Chungking's Seven Dragon Slope airdrome. They were thin, and their faces were old and unsmiling. To fresh young U.S. flyers on the field, they seemed like apparitions from another war, another age. They had only now ended a flight begun from the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet three years, four months and one week before. They were some of Jimmy Doolittle's men who had bombed Japan...
...find myself upon a constant downward slope...
...also a man with one of the most unusual faces in public life. It is lined and jowly and the nose is long. Under a shock of coarse, iron-grey hair are widely spaced, bushy eyebrows which slope toward the cheekbones, veiling heavy-lidded, heavy-circled eyes. He looks like an extremely dignified sheep with a hangover. But he is not at all like a sheep, and he never has a hangover...
...knows why the kitchen sink should be built higher and slope down; he has washed up dishes at it hundreds of times. He knows about rations; he has cooked them. He can make a bed quicker than most people. Ladies: send Norman to Parliament. He will speak up for you there. Signed: Mrs. Norman Tiptaft...