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...pour in and wounded move out in a motley armada of helicopters and transports that parachute their cargoes. For the French, the cost is not small - about 1,200 killed, wounded or missing - and the respite in infantry fighting brings no respite from the nerve-racking devil's clockwork of the Red artillerymen...
...rifle; the few machine guns were vintage World War I. The Russian tanks actually outfought the Germans, then quickly ran out of gas and became sitting ducks for German artillerymen. For the Germans it was Poland and France all over again on a massive scale. Objectives were taken like clockwork, and Moscow beckoned. For the Russians, even the stunning defeats were not so crushing as Stalin's failure to do something about it. Where were his air "falcons" as the Germans strafed at will? And why were army officers and party functionaries packing wives and food, and taking...
Waterworks engineers across the U.S. have been puzzled by capricious rises and falls in the volume of water used in the early evening. Like clockwork on the hour and the half hour, the demand shoots violently upward-sometimes as much as 30% during a five-minute period. As puzzled as any of his colleagues, Water Commissioner George J. Van Dorp of Toledo, Ohio studied his charts, maps and figures and set out to find the culprit...
...half-waking trance, broken only by his groaning, hiccuping and incomprehensible muttering. In the small hours of May 5, 1821, he cries: "Who retreats?", and then.: "At the head of the Army!" In the late afternoon, Napoleon sighs three times, his pupils flicker, his chin twitches up & down with "clockwork regularity"-and an equerry hurries off to inform the British governor that it is all over...
...then gave another incomprehensible shout, ran round the table, sat down on the floor and began to play with a clockwork engine on a circular track. The little girl climbed on a tricycle and pedaled round the floor. "I can ride your bike," she said...