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Lindner thereupon placed Harold in a deep hypnotic trance, suggested his baby hood : "You are getting smaller and younger. ... You are very small now, a very small baby ... in the cradle. . . . Why did you first start to blink your eyes?" Harold then related, in sharp detail, two frightening experiences apparently at the age of about six or eight months: 1) sitting in his mother's lap at the movies, he was terrified by a picture of a "wolf" (probably Rin-Tin-Tin, says Lindner); 2) next morning, waking early in his cradle, he saw that his father, looking wolfish...
Oldtimers heard the news with barely a blink. The War Department announced last week that a woman had been appointed for the first time as an instructor in the high and mighty Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas...
Said he: "The plane shook all over with a terrific tearing sound. The ammunition case and a lot of broken parts were pinning me down. ... I thought it was all over because there was no chance to get out. . . . All I was able to do was blink my eyes but I realized we were going down at a terrific rate of speed and that in a few minutes I would be dead. ... I was praying...
...York Daily News's George Dixon discovered that Butch LaGuardia, now 60, would also bounce his 175-lb. around in World War II. The President was ready to sign an order commissioning him as a brigadier general. Wrote Reporter Dixon: "The order suggests that Army doctors blink at whatever spavins, heaves, or horsecollar sores the wild Mayor may have and pass him if he is able to stand on his feet...
...highly explosive magnesium dust. Once a conveyor pipe broke and caused an explosion which killed a few workers; again careless builders hooked on to a hydrogen line instead of an air hose, blew themselves skyhigh. Atop everything else, the newly designed three-story electric furnaces were constantly on the blink because the terrific heat (4,000° F.) melted vital parts...