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Right at the beginning of the term, his total turnover was one or two books a day. It has crept up gradually so that he now collects an average of six or eight books in a morning's run, but that is still not a very encouraging total...
...unit's heroes was a Japanese-American corporal named Hideo Hashimoto, who had spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp in the U.S. Hashimoto, a right-handed pitcher for his regimental baseball team, had crept out on the edge of the ridge, hurled grenade after grenade with deadly accuracy at the advancing Reds. In one attack, Hashimoto was throwing grenades at Red troops less than 20 yards away. When he ran out of grenades, Hashimoto pitched rocks...
...woman fainted. A man slumped, dead of a heart attack. The rest, some bleeding or bruised, sat quietly. Many prayed, as the brilliant lights of Denver crept closer. The landing gear was cranked slowly down (the hydraulic and electrical systems were all but wrecked) and the crippled plane flew through the last, perilous seconds of its flight. Then, suddenly, the agony was over, the plane was safe on the solid ground. As the passengers climbed out, a salesman named Francis Thomas said with reverence: "That landing was like being born all over again...
...first the hospital ship's fate was completely cloaked by fog and silence. Then, as the first rescue vessel crept through the murk off Seal Rocks, lookouts spotted what looked like scores of tennis balls floating on the offshore swell...
...over the U.S., consumers snared the Wall Streeter's eloquent indignation. Scare-buying and hoarding had slackened off but still prices crept up. Since Korea, meat had jumped 10% and 15%, butter and eggs were up at least a few pennies. Coffee, which had been riding high even before Korea, had managed to jump another 6? or 9?. "Sugar, soap, flour-things you never bother to price before buying-have gone up," complained a West Los Angeles housewife...