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...Today's setting sun has seen more soldiers dying than soldiers sleeping. For every single minute during the entire day all of us, from the last private to the highest staff officer, have been conscious of the monstrous Russian superiority. Our battalions had to be spread out very thin to meet the Russian attacks everywhere. Last night we were forced to retreat hastily. .. . All we could take with us were a few artillery pieces and a few anti-tank guns. But many of our units managed to keep only their machine guns and rifles. It is with those weapons...
When their voices were worn thin from piercing the smoke-filled hall, the curtain went up on a gay musical comedy featuring the adventures of a group of ship-wrecked survivors in the Dutch East Indies...
There was a time when Boggs worked for 32 doctors' offices at once, but an analysis of his own business showed he was wearing himself out and spreading himself thin for little extra profit. Last week, at 48, he was coasting along easily on twelve practices. He does not worry about his ideas getting abroad and spoiling business. Often a doctor, after months of coaching in Boggs ideas, thinks he can run his own practice, fires Boggs only to come back later with a new problem. Some doctors have rehired him as many as three times...
...Washington the ranks of home-front watchers-air-raid wardens, fire guards, auxiliary police, etc.-had become so thin that OCD officials asked the armed services for help in staging a thumping parade at month's end. Their hope: that the spectacle of Civilian Defense Volunteer Office uniforms and equipment, sandwiched in among warlike detachments of soldiers and sailors, would stimulate recruiting of home-defense workers...
Behind them, the "stage electrician" manipulated his switchboard. He could simulate every effect they might see on a war patrol: dawn, eastern horizon (the thin line of light which justifies the phrase "crack of dawn"); dawn, western horizon (an upper glow, quite different); fire at sea (a glow unmistakable once seen); thunder showers far off; gunfire ("Here's a cruiser coming at you," explained the CPO instructor, and the class watched the tiny, stabbing flashes grow brighter...