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...clear. Soon, far and high, but nearer & nearer, came the drone of planes. Antiaircraft fire began to slam. Tearing down through the night sky, a far-off whistle rising hysterically into a splitting scream, came the first bombs. Soon the whole sky was screaming with bombs, while the city-target below bumped and shook in the bursts, and incendiary bombs spluttered...
...pounders had missed the target, but the next wave (three Douglas B-18s) slapped in their loads without a single miss. Black smoke belched up in geysers, junk tanks flipped on their sides, armored cars flumped limply on their bellies...
...constant presence of chalk dust which permeated the camp in dry weather and overlaid it with "paste" when it was wet. Even towards the end-of the task, the surrounding area was scarred with white chalk marks which gave the workers considerable uneasiness since bombers had a prominent target, but the whiteness was finally plowed under...
...short distance away on the ice I saw a sturdy wooden stake some three or four feet long and as thick as my arm. . . . Joe did not see me coming and as I skated up behind him his head made a perfect target. I gripped the stake in both hands and put everything I had into my swing. It struck Joe's head . . . like a home run -and the fight was over. . . . The speed of my attack had carried me past, and by the time that I could . . . turn back, he was lying prostrate in a pool of blood...
...many thinking groups that have switched from an unpopular peace-at-almost-any-price stand to open belligerency against Germany, the Harvard Student Union has been the most recent target for Crimson pot-shots. Yet only last year the Crimson stumbled about trying to find a sinecure that would defeat Hitler and keep America from getting hurt...