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Disjointed Tale. The tennis balls were human heads. It was quickly evident that there were hundreds of them in patches hidden by fog. There were rafts and makeshift rafts on which humans, crying in thin voices, clustered like sodden bees. The rescue vessels began pulling them aboard, and moving blindly on with whistles braying in eerie chorus...
...other bolder plan called for holding the widest possible perimeter, including Taegu and Pohang. This would mean stringing out in a thin line and shuttling units back & forth to block enemy thrusts; but for political, morale and strategic reasons it seemed to the top command important to hold Taegu, the provisional capital of the South Korean government and an important base for U.S. tactical aircraft. The hold-Taegu strategy, obviously ordered by General Douglas MacArthur and General Walton Walker, prevailed. By last week there were heartening signs that that strategy was correct...
...never saw men with so much guts," said Marine Brigadier General Edward Craig, as he watched through his glasses. Craig's hand trembled slightly, but his mouth was as determined as the thin line of marines on the forbidding face of the ridge...
...their various fashions, the people of New Mexico had long prayed for rain. They were used to seeing the Rio Grande shrunk to a brookwide trickle, too thick to drink, too thin to plough. They were used to seeing their reservoirs low, their rolling ranges burned brown. Often they were forced to ship their cattle away to greener pastures. Many a sun-scorched New Mexican had said resignedly: "The Lord made the state dry. I guess He wants it that...
...nearby Massachusetts. When he reached it, he scattered into it six pounds of dry ice. Almost at once the cloud, which had been drifting along peacefully, began to writhe as if in torment. White pustules rose from its surface. In 5 minutes the whole cloud melted away, leaving a thin wraith of snow. None of the snow reached the ground (it evaporated on the way down), but the dry ice treatment had successfully broken up a cloud...