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Once upon a time there was a little boy whose parents were very poor. They lived in The Bronx, in a drab backwash of a great city...
There are many more of such backwash wars to be fought. In Celebes, Java, Timor, Halmahera and countless other Pacific Islands there are perhaps 165.000 Jap holdouts, isolated but still untouched by the Allies. There is little question that they are there to stay until the Aussies rout them out and kill them...
...Conversion. "Molotov" is an underground pseudonym (Molot means hammer). Molotov was born Scriabin, the son of a store clerk in the village of Kukarka. At a sacrifice, the family sent him to gymnasia (high school) in nearby Kazan, to college in distant Petrograd. There the backwash of the bloody revolution of 1905 hit and converted him. At 1 6 he was a full-fledged, poster-writing, bomb-making revolutionary. At 19 he had been jailed, exiled...
...sick bay and said: "You'll be all right now, Joe." Then we got dive-bombed and a big hole was blown in the sick bay. The blast blew everyone around and I just about passed out. Mac got blown to pieces. The water poured in and the backwash washed me right out through that hole. Another gunboat came steaming in and picked me up. They laid me beside an Oerlikon gun and the row was awful. Jeeze, that gun left me in a daze, and I passed out. About 4 p.m. I woke up, seeing...
Boss Dickmann shook his head, blamed it on the Willkie "backwash" that had got Republicans so stirred up that they could not stop. But the Post-Dispatch saw a defeat for the Machine-the Machine that had registered voters who did not exist, had received payment for public service that it did not perform, and finally had tried to seat in the Governor's chair a man who had not been elected...