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Last week he turned up at the fighting fronts in a light grey flannel bush coat, khaki drill breeches, polo boots, Sam Browne belt, and an ancient stern-visored guardsman's cap, which he has clung to for years: it has been rebuilt three times. Neither at Dunkirk nor anywhere since then has he bothered to wear a steel helmet...
...garments fashioned from such material have revolutionized the traditional costume of many a district. Where peasant women from time immemorial have clung to black & white, they now dress in yellow, green, red or blue. It is not uncommon to see a girl dressed in a British Army shirt, a yellow parachute skirt...
...memory of death and destruction (see p. 18), a sense of imminent crisis clung to travelers who came out of Germany. Swedes returning home in unusual numbers limned a portrait of a nerve-taut nation, racked but ready for fateful decisions...
Jolting take-offs and stops scrambled Britons with Britons, Britons with Americans. Passengers clung each to each, forgot the chill reserve common to Anglo-Saxon bus riders the world over...
Last week the Army staged a strategic retreat. The Army clung to its major position: that Loury and Fisher had had a fair trial. But because of "facts and circumstances surrounding" the case, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson announced that Fisher's sentence was reduced to ten years, Loury's to eight. The lieutenant, said Patterson's report, had been discharged from the service "under conditions other than honorable...