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...into her business none." Titus' farm is "somethin' like Communism. Nobody's got nothin', but everybody's workin'." Does he like the radio? "I don't hold with furniture that talks." Titus is anemic. If cut, he will not bleed; the wound will only "hiss and pucker." Says Allen: "Titus will be getting better when the other characters have dried up and blown away...
...Poet Spender discovered any such talent, he makes no mention of it. European Witness is in the main a routine travelogue. It has flashes of fancy poesy ("poignant deep-green fields through which homesickness seems to bleed with a dark stain of greenish blood"), and a full share of the pedestrian details that pad out most travel books ("During the [week] days I went for three walks . . . once to the Cloisters of the Nikolaskirche, once to the Poppelsdorfer Schloss and once to the Beethovenhaus, which was closed"). It also has passages in which Poet Spender writes like a naive...
...Force was working harder than ever on a job hopefully christened "operation strangle." If Cannon's tacticians spoke medical terminology they might have called it "arteriotomy," for they were quite literally cutting the German supply arteries. His Mitchells, Marauders, Warhawks and Thunderbolts were trying, very forcefully, to bleed Marshal Kesselring's stubborn divisions to death by severing - and keeping severed - the marshal's difficult north-south rail communications...
Navy doctors call it "fourway infusion." Working on marines wounded at Guadalcanal, surgeons found that some patients would bleed to death if they waited for plasma to dribble in through one tube, developed a quicker method of transfusion. Last week in Manhattan Captain French Robert Moore, a surgeon who is a veteran of Guadalcanal and Tarawa, described the new method...
Allied air objectives were still twofold: to smash up German war power (especially aircraft industry) on the ground; to bleed the Luftwaffe white in grinding air combat. Allied airmen still hoped the pace would burn out the Luftwaffe by summer...