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...worm-turning spirit spread to a crowd at a nearby station, who joined in the fun of tossing rocks to destroy signboards. When the train began to move again, the rebellious commuters clambered aboard-but at every stopping place they spread revolution and left behind a trail of mob-torn stations...
...millions of German minds the brief, impressive years of resurgence and victory had rooted Hitler's ideas too deeply and too well for them to be torn out overnight. In postwar Europe, Germany would be ever present, ever dangerous-and ever necessary to the rest of the continent...
Among the still cautious Britons were those who had managed to survive a V-bomb strike, and those who had been lucky enough to be 200 yards or more away when a giant V-2 let loose. They would never forget the brilliant white flash of the explosion, the torn bodies of the dead and the numbed, blackened faces of the injured. V-2 had given no warning to those it killed or maimed, but those who had been on the fringes of its blast would never forget its sounds...
Toward Victory. A great gap had been torn in the Jap blockade. Supplies, flowing up the Ledo-Burma Road, were revitalizing Chungking's ragged riflemen. Not even the Jap capture of Laohokow and its U.S. air base (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) could hide the overall fact that China's armed strength was increasing...
This havoc was created not by a demolition squad, but by three nine-year-old boys. On a Sunday afternoon they broke into Brooklyn's Public School 173 by cutting a window screen, rampaged until suppertime. When the janitor arrived next morning, he found windows shattered, pictures torn, walls smeared, light bulbs smashed, desks and chairs ripped apart, a grand piano stripped of keys and strings, the remnants of two bonfires, the leavings of crackers and jam in a domestic science kitchen, a total of 21 classrooms in shambles. The damage-which added...