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...Learn the tunes. Sing them as printed . . . Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you are half dead, or half asleep, but lift up your voice with strength. Be no more afraid of your voice now, nor ashamed of its being heard, than when you sing the songs of Satan. Sing modestly. Do not bawl . . . Strive to unite your voices together so as to make one clear melodious sound. Sing in time. Do not run before or stay behind...
...lead platoon of Communists approached the pass, some overeager G.I.s opened fire, instead of waiting to trap the next unit. "I was asleep when they cut loose," Shelton said, "then the next thing I knew, enemy bullets were coming into my hole." But the suddenly awakened soldiers discovered that their buddies had the situation under control. Blasts from U.S. BARs and salvo after salvo from 75-mm. recoilless rifles ripped into the advancing Reds, pinning some to the clifflike wall of the pass, hurling others into the roadside ditches. Within minutes, the first wave of the Communist attack had been...
Party bigwigs from Paris, appearing as witnesses, quickly shifted from the case at hand to standard denunciations of the Marshall Plan and the atom bomb (U.S. brand). Prim in a navy pin-striped suit, Raymonde smiled, blew kisses to her husband of seven months, once fell asleep when the trial session dragged on past midnight. She admitted her crime "proudly," said she did it because "I hate...
...Springfield, Ohio one night, two pledges of the Wittenberg College chapter of Alpha Tau Omega, exhausted after two sleepless-nights of initiation preliminaries, were driven eight miles out of town and left to make their own way back. Hit by a truck at 8 a.m. after they had fallen asleep on the edge of the road, one was killed, the other injured. Wittenberg ordered officers of the fraternity to resign, suspended its charter for the rest of the year...
Then he falls asleep to dream of a beautiful blonde, other women, and his future. Awakened by the radio, he wanders to the window and sees Susan outside, having a very good time with another...