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Clanking over the rolling plain at 25 to 30 miles an hour, the tank has the motion of a small sailboat in choppy water. Every sudden encounter with a ditch or an arroyo knocks the crew against the steel walls, making them momentarily glad of their thick, hot helmets, which otherwise are instruments of torture in a desert that is on the average 10° hotter than Egypt...
Distress. Berlin and Rome, having buttered up Serrano as their pride & joy, had no ready explanations for his new role as whipping boy. In a sense his dismissal was a diplomatic slap, but it meant no sudden switchover in Franco's generally pro-Axis policy...
...authors describe a curious domestic scene in the White House on Dec. 7. The President was sitting tieless and in shirt sleeves, munching an apple and chatting with "Buzz" (his nickname for Harry Hopkins). Buzz, in V-necked sweater and slacks, was lounging on a couch. Suddenly the phone jangled and a White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden...
Those who had not been through it before thought that was all, but it wasn't. Now, last of all, came the sound, no shriek of the bomb falling, but the sudden, shocking, dull, booming blast of the explosion...
...pushcart business. But eventually a real-estate company razes the tenements and disperses the pushcarts. At a last neighborhood party, brightened by his market-place alumni who have grown rich, Mr. Marco has a long conversation with a courtly old party who turns out-in a sudden accession of fantasy-to be Death...