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...briefed the distinguished gathering, Montgomery tramped across a huge relief map of Normandy spread across the floor. He said he intended to capture the city of Caen, eight miles from the beaches, on the first day. He might even get to Falaise, 32 miles inland. He would "crack about and force the battle to swing...
...front of us were just 150 young German kids with bicycles. But we did not expect the German 352nd Division. So as soon as we hit the beach, we came under heavy fire from a battle-hardened field division. Jesus! Had we known we were up against a crack unit like that, we'd have messed up our pants...
...capable of carrying out sabotage and murder for the foreseeable future. The A.W.B.-aligned Volksfront is planning acts of & civil disobedience aimed at provoking confrontations with government security forces. Many South Africans may think it fitting if the A.N.C. chooses to use some of the same methods to crack down on the right that the apartheid government used against its freedom fighters for the past 46 years...
Enough is enough. Professional sports should take a page out of the NHL's book and crack down on violent conduct. (Dale Hunter, are you listening...
...watched G. Brent McGuire '95, peninsula council member, take the mike early in the evening and begin to crack jokes. Before he made too much of a fool of himself the mike was cut off, but before every person watching could see one conservative's expression of his "compassion" for the issue of stopping violence against women. Perhaps this illustration from someone purportedly in he same camp twill help kelly realize what these women are up against...