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...ditches, tending fields. Some, like Conte, squatted for months in "the hole," a tiny cell in which a prisoner could not stand or lie down. "My biggest worry was that I was going to lose my mind in there," said Conte. "Then I learned to keep my mind a blank for hours on end, and somehow I didn't go nuts...
...union man looked blank. The seminarian innocently repeated his question in a somewhat louder voice. The man scratched his head. Then Dean Scott diplomatically asked the labor leader whether he understood the question. "Damned if I do," he replied...
...historical events, and were thus used for prophecies. World War I, the Depression and World War II have been recognized on this scale and passed; dead ahead has loomed the most portentous date of all-the date upon which the pyramid's main passage runs smack into a blank wall. On that date, the British Israelites predicted, would come "the final collapse of aggressive military systems" and the begining of the "cleansing of the earth and humanity as God's sanctuary." C (for cleansing...
...artillery crew, sighting through the bore of their weapon, fired point-blank at onrushing Reds and escaped with their gun. Other crews had to destroy their guns with grenades before they fell back; one U.S. artillery battalion lost 300 in killed and captured...
...Admission Blank to Thorndike" by Ralph Maud an old man suffers through a heart attack while a group of people, including a doctor who is "a lecturer at the medical school and doesn't have a State license to practice," sit around and mope. Though it might have happened, the story has such an air of unreality that all belief in its problems or characters vanishes...