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...downward to drive a cushion of spray under the hull. The tunnel-stern (fashioned after the belly of a sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete sea wall (the last for no apparent reason except to prove that Eureka can take...
...advantage which Dr. Fellers claims for his blue crabs is that "struvite" (harmless crystals of magnesium ammonium phosphate which occur in nearly all canned fish products) is not found in eastern crabmeat. Many fish packers are troubled by struvite lawsuits, for their customers crunch the crystals between their teeth, think they have been chewing glass...
...Washington, New Deal Senator Homer T. Bone, despite some ballot-crossing by "Pro-American" Republicans, easily beat Otto A. Case, a Townsend Planner. Republican Ewing D. Colvin, Seattle attorney, was selected to try to crunch Mr. Bone...
...shock, the terrific impact of this realization upon mystic, intuitive Dictator Hitler produced one of those instantaneous and, as Nazis say, "inspired" decisions which the Führer now & then makes: MOBILIZATION! Once aroused, potent Herr Hitler, with Teutonic ruthlessness, simply smashed brave, resourceful but basically impotent Dr. Schuschnigg. Crunch!-the heavy-handed German Chancellor dispatched from Berlin Schuschnigg's Minister Without Portfolio Edmund Glaise-Horstenau to demand within five hours a decree by the Austrian Government "indefinitely postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining...
...confusion in which you are not conscious of the part you are playing. Whatever you are fighting about in a war, it is a long way away, and you are nothing." He was in University City for a while, sniping from the windows of rooms whose floors were a crunch with shattered laboratory equipment, littered with blasted furniture. Then as the Rebel advance was stopped, forced back, he was in open-country fighting: advancing, dropping back, advancing again, sometimes in big attacks where tanks and armored cars accompanied the troops and enemy bombers retaliated in force ("I had been waiting...