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Every shop in Naousa was plundered, even the barbershops, from which razors and hair tonic were carried away. The two-story hospital was blown up with land mines. Nine factories were destroyed, including a textile mill which employed 1,000, the biggest in the Balkans. When a workman asked why the means of livelihood of innocent people should be thus snatched away, a rebel answered: "How else are we going to get you people to come to the hills with...
...facile workman, he is cheerfully accommodating when he has to turn out a new number overnight because an old one has been dropped from a show. But unlike most composers and authors, he refuses to lower his own high royalty rate (5% of gross receipts) when a show has begun to slump at the box office. A song generally takes shape in his head before he plays it or puts a word on paper, and a glazed look of creation may come over his face at any time of day or night-and at any place on earth...
Between now and then, workman on the library have four projects ahead of them. They must complete the landscaping, install electrical fixtures, attach the heating system, and decorate the interior of the building...
...Munich, a workman told an American correspondent: "You fired him because he is the first German leader with the guts to tell the truth." Then the workman admitted that he had only the vaguest notion of what Semmler had said. A leader of the powerful Christian Social Union party sermonized: "This incident is proof that all gossip about freedom and democracy is false...
...nerve was famous. While still at Oxford, he inhaled carbon monoxide to test its effect on the body and made notes of his sensations (he found them unpleasant). Once he climbed down a manhole in London's Redcross Street to check on gas that had caused a workman's death. When he accidentally swallowed a culture of meningitis germs in a hospital laboratory, he reported: "I just carried...