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Three of the five great powers will have disappeared. France has gone, and if ever she returns it will be a hard and a long upward pull for her to emerge again. Italy has completely disappeared and may never be a great power again. Germany will disappear. Germany, at the end of this war, will have disappeared perhaps never to emerge again in the old form. Nobody knows...
...flyer named Pokryshkin roared head on at a slim-bodied Junkers, shot upward, swerved right, then banked sharply, with his guns blazing. The German bomber fluttered down, trailing smoke. At a Red Air Force headquarters, a 35th digit was marked against the name of Major Alexander Pokryshkin. Across the breadth of Russia, men & women grinned and muttered: "Molodets paren"-atta boy. For to them, Alexander Pokryshkin is one of the war's top air heroes...
...ball for Duluth when World War I broke out. He came out of the war a second lieutenant, rejected baseball for law. By 1934 he was police judge. Friends used to find him after court, brooding, haunted by doubts of the justice of his decisions. They guessed he was upward bound, unless his intensity broke him physically...
...Dangling your arms between well-sagged knees, woggle your shoulders and touch an ear on the upward movement. Between woggles, droop shoulder...
...Partisans appeared: a hard-faced, unshaven man with a red star sewn to his cap and a 16-year-old, lugging an Italian bandoleer and carbine. Swiftly De Luce was passed from hand to hand, always upward, away from the sea, into the Dinaric Alps...