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Targets of Opportunity. Two hours later, the clangor of general quarters sent all hands to their battle stations. The Juneau was 4,000 yards offshore and the lights of trucks moving along coastal roads in enemy-held South Korea could be seen with the naked eye. One of the Juneau's forward guns cracked sharply and a flare-shell sped into the night. A few seconds later a brilliant white light floated gracefully over the beach toward low hills. The five-inchers pounded for a few minutes and then all was dark and silent again. The Juneau swung about...
...which, according to Hindu legend, wells up from underground. At the Triveni Sangam (Meeting of the Three Rivers) last week, a tumultuous tent city had grown up, peopled by 3,000,000 Hindus. By thousands of fires, breech-clouted sadhus (holy men) chanted Vedic hymns. Around the clock a clangor of raucous songs mingled with hymns, flutes with elephant bells, caterwauls with the keening of sacred recitations. The millions had come for the religious festival of Ardh Kumbh Mela, to revel and to bathe where the sacred rivers meet...
Peace and homecoming, peace and homecoming rang like the clangor of Christmas bells in the heart of nearly every American last week...
...hardships, but held relentlessly to their war labors by the Gestapo, the military, the ordinary police, the Nazi Party. No vestige of a German underground exists; no German yet dares to raise voice or hand against Adolf Hitler and his men. Furthermore, the Nazi radio was not all empty clangor in German ears. Ordinary Germans might be weary of much that Naziism had brought, but they had not lost their fierce love for the Vaterland, still wanted to believe that it could be saved...
...week long its clangor rang in Adolf Hitler's ears...