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...against defeatists, inflation and black-market dealings. Scorza, tall, tough provincial Party boss who once cheated Credito Toscano out of $6,000,000, is one of the Party's most ruthless administrators, has run an almost continuous series of purges of apparently thousands of "cancroid creatures who have crept into the Mussolini structure...
...announced that if Bengasi fell to Rommel he would no longer be able to take convoys through to Malta. Bengasi fell. He called his staff together and said: "Gentlemen, you have just heard that the Germans have taken Bengasi. We'll run a convoy next week." When Rommel crept within 65 miles of Alexandria, reporters asked A.B.C. what its loss would mean. He said: "Oh, I don't think we are getting...
...minutes, beginning at 9 p.m. the Eighth's guns winked at the enemy. Then infantry crept forward and began the awful climb...
Last week the car ferry Sainte Marie, queen of the icebreakers, pushed her broad armored nose through the Straits of Mackinac, heading for the Soo Locks. Behind her crept ten freighters, riding light or loaded with Ohio coal, all eager to be first to move on the Lakes in the year 1943. The icebreaker made it, but all the freighters were trapped in the icy fastness of Whitefish Bay. Even the Sainte Marie's propeller, which sucks water from under the ice so that its heavy bow can more readily pulverize it, could not free them-they just...
...eight had the power in reserve to stave off a Tech sprint and pick up some water in the last three-quarters of a mile. Tech began its sprint shortly before it reached the Mass. Avenue bridge, and as the two crews swept under the structure the Engineers had crept to within a deck length of the Crimson...