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Colonel Sagmoen soon had his captive in tow-a thin, nervous man, balding at 37 and trimly dressed in a pin-striped business suit. The American growled: "You bastards started this war and we'll show you who's finishing it!" He ordered the prisoner into the back of his jeep...
...first Frenchwomen also came home last week from the prisons of Germany. There were about 200 of them, prematurely aged, pitifully thin and tattered, some on stretchers, some barely able to walk. Charles de Gaulle greeted them. All Paris honored them with tears, tossed lilacs and lilies of the valley at their feet. Most of them were wives and daughters of executed resistance leaders...
...Jankowski and 14 other representatives of the pro-London Poles in Poland had not been heard from since accepting a Soviet invitation to palaver about the Yalta agreement and broadening the Warsaw Government. Last week the very vocal London Polish Government, whose communication lines with Poland have been thin since the Red Army liberated the country, came out with a sinister communiqué saying that all 15 had "vanished," implying that the Soviet authorities had rubbed them...
...pipiens (New Jersey) -and confronted them with a microphone and high-powered amplifier. A surprising variety of noises, resembling bird calls, emerged. Mosquitoes, it turned out, have voices in the middle ranges of human hearing (frequencies of 250 to 1,500 cycles per second). Females bellow; male voices are thin and high-pitched...
Daughter Emily was thin, graceful, with a wide mouth, an upturned nose and large, haunting eyes - a goblin face. Her sister Lavinia was a village spinster, in her later years became cross, sharp-tongued, quarrelsome and grasping, with long black hair, broken, irregular teeth (mostly false) and dirty hands and fingernails. Their brother Austin married Susan, their school girl friend, a tavernkeeper's daughter. Susan soon became involved in a lifelong feud with sister-in-law Lavinia...