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...suggest a U.S. buying commission handling the whole deal, and directing policy to bleed from Jap territory essentials which cannot be imported by air cargo or even over a reopened Burma Road. This cannot be done with Chinese dollars because their high velocity forces them back into free China; likewise U.S. dollars eventually do the same. Gold with real value will go underground, and cannot be effectively outlawed by the Japs. Even if passing into Jap hands, its use to them will be negligible as they have already sufficient (gold) for their own purposes...
...that the founder of a new school needed [in the post-Civil War South]," he says, "was a little.learning and a lot of physical strength. Sawney . . . had both." A tough man, he sometimes came to class with a scratch on his hand and "allowed it to bleed unnoticed as the boys sat in awe at the brave show...
...capable human male. As the squadron commander, he is able to make his habitual inarticulateness suggest the uncommunicative competence that men expect in their leaders. Anna Lee, after three sleepless nights, is still able to suggest a Beautyrest. Too many Japanese pilots get the same wound, by which they bleed photogenically at the mouth. But when the dragon-headed planes are off the ground, and fighting, Flying Tigers is a good show to see. For the combat sequences, salted with some extraordinary shots made in Burma, are always loud, swift, exciting. At moments, as in the sudden, braided smoke spirals...
...Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long & loud that his nose began to bleed. L'Action bragged: "We do not want to upset the Republic; we want to cut its throat. We are not a political party; we are a conspiracy...
...week intimated that the United Nations would stake their forces not so much upon defense in the Near East as on offense in Europe (see below). If it succeeds, Germany will be defeated soon. If it fails, the war may last for many years and the democratic world will bleed...