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...erroneous picture of the attitude of the Submarine Force toward the problems encountered in connection with its postwar new-construction program ... I believe that I am reasonably well qualified to reflect that attitude, since I was the commissioning executive officer in Harder and have been commanding officer of Trigger, another of the new class . . . The overall design of these new attack submarines is excellent, and many of their capabilities represent large advances over previous submarine standards. The "novel lightweight diesel engines" are a legitimate attempt on the part of the Navy to develop a more efficient diesel . . . Since January...
...quiet night, was a pleasant summer bivouac. They slept on cots in Perry's concrete-floored hutments (billeting: $1 a day), ate cafeteria-style in a big mess hall, stole off to the beach, a stone's throw from the steady fusillade. Off the range, they talked trigger-happily of their guns...
...still held a thin lead over Armyman Benner. While the others ate lunch, Harry Reeves flopped in his hut. Shuttling between his cot and the range all through the sweltering afternoon, Reeves was a shaky, sweaty wreck. But in each critical instant of firing, he aimed surely, squeezed the trigger steadily, guided his bullets by instinct, if not by sight. His 2,606 points beat Benner, who slipped to 2,595-a level only a handful of pistol-men can ever hope to attain. Harry Reeves's two daughters rushed up to buss him for winning his fifth National...
...Mike," she murmurs, toying with the buttons of her blouse. "Ride your imagination. Get it all out . . ." She lifts her lips to his. Gently he squeezes the trigger and blows a hole in her belly (the dame had it coming to her). "Then she went down like soft rope," says Mike as the film ends, "and there was only one thing left to do. Order a basket...
...Trigger-nerved, bilious, plagued with insomnia, Carlyle found a captivated as well as a captive audience in wife Jane, who shared all of his symptoms and capped them with migraine headaches of her own. Many a letter finds Carlyle with his ear cupped to the inner symphony of psychosomatic complaints: "Alas, alas, I am losing my eyesight (sad symptom of bile) by stooping over this flat table." In the country, a cow lowing in pasture could ruin his night's sleep. London was all "noise, unwholesomeness, dirt and fret." In Germany, all coffee resembled a "physic." Paris proved...