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...some 18,000 feet, the Jap planes looked like tiny match sticks. They dived for the Yorktown's heart. Every gun of the carrier and her escort began to blaze. Tiny planes hesitated in their dives, made brief flowers of flame, fell into the sea. But a few kept coming at the Yorktown. The bombs slashed through the decks, started fires over the fuel tanks and magazines. Life rafts, splintered boxes, wrecked planes showered about the ship...
...chill mouth, the lean rigor of his face, the green blaze in his eyes, many German women have found something fearful and attractive. Common soldiers, and even his fellow Prussians, sometimes saw in him a quality which they shunned and derided. They called him der Sterber ("the Dier"). They called themselves "Bock's own dying heroes." But, at his command, they fought well, and by the thousands they died. With the abundance of guns, tanks and planes which Bock gave them, they drove the men of the Red Army from the hills, the valleys and the villages before Stalingrad...
...Blaze of Glory. In Barren, Wis., a hen laid an egg measuring 13 inches around (the long way), died...
...young dramatists would do well to consider the psychological nature of this weapon of hate by which they seek to improve our morale. Hatred is a consuming fire. The dramatists may fan this flame, but they cannot control it. Some day ... it will spread through our own midst and blaze out in race riots, in conflicts between Capital and Labor, and in the violent rebellion of our dispossessed sharecroppers...
Leaving Houghton by the front door, the party rounded the steps of Windener, which had been cleared of students, to find over 2000 cheering and clapping undergraduates. In a blaze of flash bulbs and grinding movie cameras Prado, still acknowledging the cheers with his hat, was pulled away in the official limousines as a motorcycle escort cleared a path...