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Major Louis Rothschild Lefkoff, a mis fit officer, was a reflection on his superiors' inertia: he had moved to new jobs and higher rank through a series of military failures. Finally found ill fitted for active command, Lefkoff was sent to Camp Van Dorn, a dreary clump of tar-paper bar racks and huts some 50 miles south of Natchez as police and prison officer...
...dred Braley learned what happened to her bowl of nasturtium seeds when her test-pilot husband rose heavily from the table, commented: "I can't say I think much of your new brand of breakfast cereal." Bushed. In Los Angeles, Edward Jones tossed $400 into a clump of bushes just before holdup men grabbed the $20 in his wallet; after the robbers had gone, he hustled over to the shrubbery, found his $400 had gone...
Sight Unseen. In Fort Benning, Ga., Sergeant William Eller made a parachute landing in a clump of trees, discovered that the grove was camouflage for a concrete runway. He survived...
...bandy-legged men squinted at the Pacific sky and ran for cover. Even over the island of Eniwetok, furthest west of all the Marshalls, the carrier-based planes arrived (see map, p. 19). The atolls shuddered under the impact of bomb upon bursting bomb and presently the screech and clump of shells added to the din and terror. Out of sight, over the horizon, surface ships had joined the carriers and were bringing the little men's islands under naval gunfire. Long awaited, long expected, the U.S. attack on the Marshalls was developing (Tokyo hinted that U.S. forces...
...Father] was hiding in a clump of bushes . . . much as if he were in a duck blind. . . . Every few minutes he would rise slowly on his knees and, bringing his eyes just above the tops of the plants, peer slyly down the road...