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...sultry, stifling day. A burning haze hovers over the dusty street of the stanitsa [Cossack village] of Starominskaya. Usually deserted at this hour, Starominskaya is filled with unaccustomed activity. Windows, doors and gates of all the cottages are flung wide open, and in each courtyard stands a wagon to which a pair of sturdy horses is harnessed. Villagers take only the most essential belongings; the rest will be buried under cover of darkness where the invaders will never discover it. The cattle were driven away several days ago. All that is left is the poultry, which the children...
...White House made its announcement, two Army ambulances drove into the jail yard. A half-hour later the U.S. Marshal's van appeared: Dasch and Burger went off to hard labor. In the courtyard, in the drizzle, six sheeted bodies on stretchers were loaded in the ambulances-four in one, two in the other. Steel-helmeted soldiers, with bayonets and machine guns, kept a little crowd of the curious away. The ambulances swung out slowly on the wet pavement, took the bodies to the Walter Reed Hospital for autopsy...
...cobblestoned courtyard outside Paris the Nazis lined up 50 French hostages. The firing squads squeezed their triggers, and the Frenchmen sagged to the stones. Presently their bloody, bullet-torn bodies were dumped into horse carts and hauled away...
Lowell Baffies Eliot Over Courtyard...
...informal but extremely serious feud is raging between Lowell and Eliot Houses over the beauties of their respective courtyards in spring time. It all started when an unofficial sampling of Bellboys revealed that they considered their courtyard to be "the beauty spot of Cambridge." Elephant supporters rose in revolt to protest, only to be met by a Lowell statement that their courtyard contains a dogwood, four lilacs, and a cherry. Latest word from "The Latter-Day Eden" is that they expect to counter the Lowell claim by pointing out that their courtyard has Merriman ad a large tree...