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...colonel called his Indians to attention and spoke to them in Urdu. Though Rommel speaks English, he does not know Urdu, which is a variation of India's Hindustani, a chop-suey language which includes Persian, Arabic and even some English words. While Rommel and his staff stood listening, the colonel rapped out his farewell. "Aj sham ko yihán se bhag jao," said he, which means roughly: "Let's get the hell out of here tonight...
...Quickest, simplest, safest method of amputation on the battlefield, said Colonel Norman Thomas Kirk of the U.S. Army, is the circular or "flapless guillotine" operation. "The word 'guillotine,'" said Colonel Kirk, "is a misnomer. The circular guillotine amputation is not a 'chop' operation." It consists of cutting around the skin of the limb, waiting a moment for it to draw back, then cutting around the connective tissue, waiting again for withdrawal, cutting through the muscles circularly, and finally sawing the bone. The old practice of covering the bone with flaps of skin has been abandoned...
...Joseph Stalin could not let this immediacy dazzle his eyes and stop his mind. He had to chop his way out of a thicket of decisions-about Moscow's de fense, about moving the Government to old Samara, now called Kuibyshev, about defending the Donets Basin, about the Volga, the Urals, the Far East, about Russia's present and Russia's future...
...game, wooden pegs (kangaroos) are used instead of balls and they are driven from a portable, slope-topped wooden tee-the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...
Last February, in St. Petersburg, Fla., died Apostle Reed Smoot, still isolationist, still bitter at Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade agreements, which partially nullified the still-existing Smoot-Hawley Act. And last week, in Salem, Ore., death came to Willis Hawley, 77, the Oregon axman who had helped chop down the economic foundations of the world...