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After climbing into the windows of Crag and sleeping huddled around the stove, the party, except for one who had received mild frostbite the day before, left at the crack of dawn in sub-zero temperatures to conquer Adams. Although the sky was clear on their side of the range, the clouds sweeping up the eastern slopes quickly locked in the mountain as they neared the final thousand feet of their climb. The ensuing blizzard completely obliterated any landmarks which they could have followed and any chance that they could reach the top. Now they only wanted to get safely...
...moved out before dawn. "What is the objective today?" I asked Tallo. "Arabs," he replied curtly. The battle was not long in coming. Forward observers located the Egyptians, and Tallo deployed his tanks, shouting, "Now you are going to have the opportunity to see Jews fight! Kedimah! [Forward]," he yelled into the radio; for good measure, he also screamed "Yallah!"-which means the same thing in Arabic...
...tell me I am grown old and peevish and supercilious-name the geniuses of 1774, and I submit it. The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will perhaps be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and in time a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru...
...necessarily nasty, brutish and short," he says. "Judging from all the clues we have found, man led the good life in the Illinois River valley. He had plenty of leisure time in which to domesticate pets. It's sheer folklore that primitive people had to struggle from dawn to dusk simply to survive." In short, the early Americans of the Illinois River valley, like their modern counterparts, enjoyed a relatively peaceful life and a highly enviable standard of living...
...moments of light or dark humor, and the latest Mideast battle is no exception. In the sand near the canal, an Israeli tank-unit commander counted his vehicles at dawn and discovered that he had one too many. An Egyptian armored personnel carrier, lost in the desert night, had attached itself to the column. The Israelis destroyed it before the Egyptian crew discovered where they were...