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...simplest countermeasure, says Klass, is radio jamming that drowns out enemy radar or communications by brute electronic force. This sort of thing is now considered as crude as bayonet fighting. The modern objective is to blind the enemy, make him see double or lead him astray, preferably without letting him know that anything is amiss...
...sound that is blotted from the sound track by a stentorian beep-it is apparent that he represents one of the worst mistakes a recruiting officer ever made. Lieut. Siegel (Glenn Ford), Marblehead's chief whipping boy, is assigned to rectify the error, and manages to teach the brute a few appropriate words to say at war-bond rallies. Touched with gratitude after his first public ad-dresk Seaman Jones takes the opportunity to tell one and all, including the admiral himself, that Lieut. Siegel is "the best (BEEP!) officer I ever served under...
After two miles the field remained a moving mass of color, half a dozen horses still in contention coming up to the final hedges of the $50,000 Temple Gwathmey, the richest steeplechase in the world. Then, as if he were tired of company, a steel-muscled brute named Neji shouldered his all-but-impossible impost of 173 lbs., sailed over the last jump like a larking colt, sprinted down the Belmont stretch and won by seven lengths...
...comes to stay in the house, lashes back at him, and rouses the put-upon pregnant wife to give him the gate. But after the wife leaves Jimmy's bed and ironing board, her friend suddenly takes over both. At the end, despite her being wild about the brute, the friend clears out from a sense of guilt, while the wife, who has had a miscarriage, pleads with him to take her back...
...Mother Veronica to close her school. For one long, sleepless night she wrestled with the spirit of defiance. By 6 a.m. Mass, defiance had won. "I won't abandon my girls to illiteracy," said she. "They won't get my little girls unless they overrun me by brute force...