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...seconds of each other, filling the sky with an enormous, blinding incandescence. A howling gale blew and died away as air roared back into the vast vacuum. Then great chunks of twisted metal from the ships and jagged fragments of exploded shells began falling. The people of Port Chicago, asleep seconds before, began calling out in the darkness amid the falling walls of their wrecked town...
...charge of a landing craft delivering jeeps to our troops on Biak. Just before making the landing an unaccountable swell shook the craft and the jeeps fell into the sea. When the troops ashore demanded to know where their transportation was, Windadge replied: "Many brave jeeps lie asleep in the deep...
...City, which makes sub-assembly parts far in advance. The Navy, doing things its own way, had not troubled to find out how Brewster operated, before moving in on the kill. And Franklin Roosevelt's two high-powered agencies to handle reconversion (in WPB and OWM) had been asleep when the violence was done...
Caught Napping. In Portland, Ore., police picked up a sound-asleep motorist in the middle of a downtown street, let him go when he explained that he "was just waiting for the light to turn...
...Life and Black Record) I was provoked to class him with Sir Samuel Hoare. If he is not nearly so silly, he certainly comes off the same shelf. He seemed as oblivious to what is happening to mankind today, on the whole, as a well-fed cat asleep, and his ideas of legitimate controversy seemed about as subtle as those of the same animal out on the tiles. He has got out of all responsibility, I gather, now, and is speaking his mind and letting us know how limited it is. ... There are moments when I could imagine...