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...presence of jungle animals and jungle people, the book strives to reassure him : most animals are harmless unless bothered; except in New Guinea and Assam (India), jungle men are gentle - in fact, they like to play cat's cradle, and usually, if he treats them kindly, will not betray a man's presence to the enemy...
...unmarked, blacked-out terrain. On these marches they wade creeks, slosh through mires, sleep wet and muddy on open ground without bedroll or tent. They live off the country, learn how to kill a sheep by cracking its neck with a quick twist (so that its bleat will not betray them), how to butcher it and start cooking within seven minutes...
...Year's Day Australians put the final squeeze on Giropa Point, while Americans closed in on the Government Station area. That day saw the first break in Jap do-or-die morale: 23 surrendered without trying to betray their conquerors. Others, clutching logs and lifebelts, tried to swim away, were picked off by sharks and sharpshooters. Next day the station area was occupied. Low-flying planes strafed the last refugees paddling through...
...high bank. On a night when clouds hid the moon and snow shrouded the river, the strongest swimmers crossed with the foundation stones in stretchers and in their tunics. Others swam with the logs. Blue-black with cold, praying that the ice along the bank would not crack and betray them by the sound, they laid the first sections in utter silence. Chest-deep in the waters near the bank, they were cut, bloodied and sometimes knocked off their feet by ice floes. Once the Germans sensed that something was up and fired aimlessly at the dark river, wounding several...
...exploded in a big way: in Boston a Federal grand jury indicted Procter & Gamble for using the mails to defraud. By the terms of a 57-page, 40-count indictment this turns out to mean bribing various Lever Bros, employes with aliases like "Babe," "Red" and "Chick" to betray production, sales and advertising secrets "against the peace and dignity...