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Shirley made her first public appearance last year at a San Francisco church social. At first she was handicapped by having only Judy Splinters' head. Father Dinsdale had not finished carving the body. So he tore the head off of Mussolini, one of his animated puppets, fitted Judy's head to it. Result: all Judy could do for animation was give the Fascist salute...
...grown apace. From Britain had come the cannon and munitions that had softened the dam. From the U.S. had come M-4 (General Sherman) * tanks mounting high-velocity, 77-mm. cannon that outranged the lower velocity German 755 by more than 700 yards. At 1,000 yards they tore holes in the frontal German armor, at 2,000 yards pierced side armor. A Seaforth Highlander reported that Italian shells bounced off his General Sherman "like tennis balls...
...interest to monkeys. Lucknow University recently complained that in the chemistry laboratory a girl student had been bitten by a monkey. Wrote a Lucknow citizen to city authorities: "Apart from the damage monkeys cause to my garden, one attacked a small child of one of my servants and tore from its nose the nose ring." Said Dr. E. A. Douglas of Lucknow's Lady Kinnaird Hospital: "For four days in succession our hospital has been plunged in darkness and the cause of this is attributed to interference of monkeys with electric fuses. The seriousness of the situation will...
...which have already helped him win the Army & Navy "E." Samples: To fill a rush boat order he roped off the streets, built his boats on the pavement; to get huge Navy landing boats from New Orleans to Norfolk in time for test runs, he shipped them on flatcars, tore down and rebuilt eight railroad bridges which were too small to let his boats through...
...under the belly of my plane, sowing bullets up & down the fuselage. I dropped the nose of my plane and came at him headon. One of his bullets hit my windshield right in front of my nose, but it missed me. My own bullets were tearing him apart. We tore past each other less than 15 feet apart. When I looked over my shoulder, he had lost control and was spinning down...