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...actually had to stay there. On Attu, they fought the second bloodiest battle of the Pacific war (549 American, 2,350 Japanese dead), and the only one on U.S. soil. Nor did peace close the bases. Because Alaska lay close to Russia, the Arctic shore soon sprouted heavily instrumented DEW line stations...
...little wetness in the form of three mornings' blessed dew descended in answer to fervent prayers and several moonlit ceremonies of great duration. The more hopefully-disposed members of the Tribe perked up, but their wise men, Alyosha and the others, and their horticulturists, remained wary. If the wind began too soon now, they said, a worse catastrophe yet would befall them and squaws awoke in the night at the slightest rustling of mice or whatever it was that made the sound like wind outside their teepees...
...tribes of the north, aware this year more than ever of their dependence on the south, watched the L.A. weather reports and when the traitorous dew raised the precipitation level yea even a quarter inch, the northern tribes sent scouts to the south, chanting as they came, to ask the southern chiefs if relief from famine could be expected. And Io, hardly had the bikes of the emissaries been spotted on the horizon by the eagle-eyed and sleepless watchers, when the hay in the fields began to move and sigh and the Great Hot Wind from the Desert began...
...young (27), brash film critic of the city's sprightly tabloid, the Sun-Times. Ebert's chatty, erudite reviews -abetted after hours at O'Rourke's by a repertory of trade union songs, trivia recollections and Irish anecdotes, boisterously rendered at a drop of Tullamore Dew-have elevated him to what Saturday Review Film Critic and Friend Arthur Knight calls "a cultural resource of the community...
...since Rachel Carson. (He is, in fact, far more accomplished; The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea were basically beads -of fact strung on a thread of prose that often strained for poetic effect.) Unlike Miss Carson, however, Russell is not a sentry on the ecological DEW line. His books, Argen the Gull, Watchers at the Pond...