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...lost children and old women, female drunks and mashers. Her captain worried about her. "She has to take chances with all those morons," he said. But Alice did not worry. "I feel the revolver is part of me," she explained, primly. "At no time do I feel uncomfortable in darkest streets because I have the weapon I look upon as my friend...
...made answerable to the Japs for camp discipline and food supplies. Those who hated him said he was a little dictator. Said one of his accusers: "He loved rules; even Japanese rules." They accused Little of cultivating the favor of his Jap captors by being their camp informer. The darkest charge of all: as a result of his reports to his captor-bosses, an Army enlisted man was beaten to death and a Marine Corps corporal was starved to death by the Japs; others were brutally treated...
China's situation was the darkest in many months. The Government had lost face because its promises had not been fulfilled. When Nationalist armies captured the old Red headquarters town of Yenan last March, Nanking had predicted that remaining Communist armies would be swept from the field in three months. Nanking had made promises about economic recovery too. But last week, just three months after the fall of Yenan, inflation was worse than ever, and the Communists seemed to be winning the war north of the Yellow River...
Dead in scheduled airlines accidents in the U.S. during the darkest hours...
Before shapely seconds rushed up with the garment, she posed a few in a pair of fetching scarlet trunks, and played it safe when asked about who the man in her life was. She gave even the darkest horse a sporting chance, so as "not to hurt anyone's feelings...