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Then he turned around and rested his other elbow on the mantel. He shook his drink a little, knocked an ash off from his cigarette into the fire place. He looked down at the fine crease of is grey flannel trousers, moving his foot until the cuff rested properly on the laces of his shoe. He tugged at his shirt a bit until the cuff made the correct distance from the end of is coat sleeve. He measured the distance with a crooked thumb. Then he moved his head up and down until his shirt collar fell snugly beneath...
...would also need equipment for: 1) removing the pile's "ash" (fission products), which slows down the chain reaction and eventually stops it altogether; 2) periodic repurifying of the uranium in the pile; 3) making repairs by remote control in case the battleship's engine broke down...
...name, he said, was "Juke." He was a little 125-lb. fellow. His eyes were sunk back in his ash-colored face; there was grime under his eyes and pasted into the wrinkles around his mouth and on his forehead. He wore a shirt that was once white; now it was black and yellow and there was spaghetti sauce over the left breast. His breath had the smell of vomit and cheap booze. Juke was unmistakably one of West Madison Street's citizens...
Before the blood was dry on the white beaches of Tarawa and the black ash of Iwo, the U.S. naval and military brass hats were determined that never again would they be handicapped by having to capture bases in the midst of war. They wanted bases needed (for Navy and Air Forces) from Greenland to the South Seas. Although military airmen's eyes were fixed on the North Polar icecap as the likeliest no man's land of a future war (because the military strength of the world is in the northern hemisphere), most of the proposed...
Temporarily, at least, the military meridian which U.S. strategists had sought to push eastward across the Atlantic was rectified in midocean. But far to the south, it bent eastward: the little ash-heap of Ascension, whose importance was not realized until midway in the war, was under British sovereignty, and the British would be reasonable. Nearer home, the chain of Western Hemisphere bases from Newfoundland to British Guiana, obtained in the destroyer deal of 1940, was secure for 93 more years...