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...them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with the French defenders. Next morning Tokyo announced the surrender of the French, and the Japanese marched triumphantly on, while their Foreign Office virtuously announced that the clash "was entirely due to misunderstanding on the part of French Indo-China...
...high mountain whine Billy Hull screamed, "God dang you, don't you speak to me!" He pulled a pistol from his left armpit. Stepp turned to run. Hull shot him "right atween the galluses." On the ground he had the prudence to shoot Stepp again. Then Billy Hull crossed the river, and back in Tennessee no one ever said another word to him about...
...Toronto doctor examined the quintuplets and mother, asked questions. Inferences led the brothers to "believe the babies to be seven-month babies, instead of eight-month babies as previously believed." Not for six weeks then would the quintuplets become normal. Dr. Allan Dafoe: "The kids are doing danged well. They shouldn't be living at all. But. dang it, they are living, and improving...
...leaves is all red an' yaller, an' they're a-movin' gentle-like, back an' forth, back an' forth, jest enough to let you know they're there. This is the fall o' the year, with the air so dang full o' haze that it looks like a lot o' spiders has been stringin' their webs around. Warm soft air, an' still it's got a bite in it, too. The days is gittin' late. Purty soon it'll be time...
...party. Grumbling a little, he climbed over the olive-colored side of an Army ship at Uvalde, Tex. When the white-haired Texan climbed out stiffly at Boiling Field he remarked: "It didn't bother me even if it was the first time I was in one of the dang things. As soon as I got used to the noise it sang me to sleep." Fumbling in his pockets he found that his devout wife had armed him with a Bible text: "The spirit of the Lord watches over you and keeps you in perfect safety." Then he went over...