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...people was with General Charles de Gaulle. Within the next fortnight the U.S. would recognize the Committee as the "provisional authority" of France (see p. 33). Paving the way, Franklin Roosevelt said last week: "The time will soon come when the Nazis in France "will learn from millions of brave Frenchmen-now underground-that the people of France, also, are not at all out of this...
Procuna did some brilliant work with a brave, black Piedras Negras bull named Meloncito. Stepping out with the muleta before the kill, Procuna stopped to salute a friend in the stands. As he did so Meloncito charged, tossed him, goring him in the thigh. He leaped to his feet smiling, played the bull brilliantly and then killed it. The crowd went mad as he limped out with his white pantaloon and stocking red with blood. At the infirmary they found his wound was four inches deep...
...armed intellectuals come to submit to the leadership of this raving dervish?" Some of them, says Heiden, did not submit; many of them openly and disrespectfully opposed him. But Hitler, like Roehm, Hess and Göring, was a "betrayed" soldier (and a brave one, Heiden insists); like Rosenberg and Goebbels, he was a frustrated man of questionable intellect. Few, if any, of his fellow "intellectuals" could so absorb themselves in the life of the Party, so readily sacrifice to this chosen duty the pleasures and comforts of life. Above all, none could so meticulously appraise the exact temper...
Vladimir the Great of Kiev took the lands along the Bug and the San from the Poles in 981. Boleslas the Brave, second king of Poland, stormed Kiev in 1018. These were but the first recorded instances in a long line of futile attempts to nail down a firm frontier where no natural barrier exists...
...Brave Boys. . . ." Patton's treatment dropped him into black anxiety. The other men tried to comfort him. Said one of the "brave boys" Patton had addressed: "It made me want to get out of the Army as fast as possible, because I thought we were fighting against such stuff...