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Along Fifth Avenue and in the high canyons of the financial district, clerks threw cautionings and paper to the winds, sent 77 tons of ticker tape and torn wastepaper fluttering down. (The tonnage for Lindbergh: 1,800.) Harlem's Negroes yelled like Indians on the warpath. Thirty thousand schoolchildren shrilled along Central Park drives. Everywhere the sound of cheering erupted deafeningly (after setting up a "noise meter" the stunned General Electric Co. calculated that it equaled 3,000 thunderclaps...
Maroni: "I suggest you went beyond what you might have mistakenly considered your duty when you tortured patriots, had their nails pulled off, their teeth torn out, their bodies kicked and blows rained on their heads so that some lost their reason and most are ruined men, finished men with no future...
...ahead and take her chances. Kicked around rather heartlessly among these three is Bill Williams, an unlucky lump of puppy love. During most of the film Mr. Young is about as systematically caddish as a man can well be and yet rate stellar billing; he even pretends to be torn away by sudden orders, purely for the purpose of setting a fire under the balky heroine. But in the long run, predictably, he finds that this amatory war differs from all the others, and that he has at last met his match...
...trying to hold together the pieces of China's political puzzle fail to be aware of the political pattern which Russia had imposed on Eastern Europe in the course of its liberation. To them the threat of a bloc of Soviet-dominated buffer states, torn from China, and extending from Manchuria to Sinkiang (see map) was very real. Should their fears be realized, a climacteric change would have taken place in the pattern of contemporary history...
...famine line. A succession of bad harvests, coupled with a wartime lack of imports, has reduced Algerian rations to 500 calories a day, only a third of what a Frenchman gets. In Little Kabylia whole villages were abandoned by a desperate population Streaming toward the cities. Fields were torn up in a desperate forage for edible roots...