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At the crest of the final hill, the coolie could see the entire Ichang Front. All around him were the Chinese strong points: machine-gun posts supported by trenched rifle pits. Farther down were lines of trenches skillfully disguised by green branches, banks of sod, transplanted wheat; odoriferous dugouts in...
The troops, who had been fighting day & night for two weeks straight, tumbled into ditches as the Nazi strafers made at them, then scrambled up to pot the advancing tanks or bayonet their way out of traps. As the forces fell back toward wedge-shaped Attica, it became evident that...
The American Museum of Natural History called it a "lecture and demonstration" on The Origins of Primitive Rhythms. But what a thousand Manhattan youngsters heard one day last week was a thumping, banging hullabaloo that set their feet atwitch, their elbows aquiver. Crouching like a witch doctor over a clattery...
The golfing duffer thinks of hazards in terms of hooks, slices, traps, bunkers, putts that won't drop. These things are nothing much in the life of P. G. A. Champion Byron Nelson. He is used to them, takes them as they come. What gets him down is good...
At Sidi Barrani the assault took three days. At Bardia it took two and a half. This time, at Tobruch, the job was done in one. The pattern was familiar by now. First the thin semicircle of defense around Tobruch was surrounded. Day before the attack, by way of feint...