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Tshombe left his pink and white stucco residence to tour the shattered wards of Prince Leopold Hospital, stopping to offer sympathy and thanks to the wounded. Said he: "Your wounds are not in vain." Then he made his last-ditch tom-tom appeal to his warriors: "Poisoned arrows will shower on our opponents; each onusien [U.N. soldier] will be a corpse...
...those who don't know, is a pleasantly grassy little ditch serving the same function as a fence around large areas of land. The ha-ha in the title of Miss Dawson's first novel encloses a mental hospital called Gardenwell Park, the residence of her heroine. Separating as it does the world of the insane from what Miss Dawson portrays as the equally artificial world of the so-called sane, the ha-ha becomes emblematic of the heroine's state of mind. For it is the thesis of this utterly absorbing novel that the line between an imaginative...
...left the service. "I would not take any job at all," he wrote Lady Astor. "There is something broken in the works, as I told you: my will, I think." Five days later, on May 13, 1935, Lawrence swerved his motorcycle to avoid two boys, fatally crashed into a ditch. Lawrence's bust was put beside that of Nelson and Wellington in the crypt of London's St. Paul's Cathedral...
...says Istina Mavet, is to know that things are far, far from what they seem. Workmen apparently digging a ditch are actually digging her grave. Peering into the depths of a mirror, she sees not her image but nothingness. Answering a phone, she hears only the voice she dreads. Even flowers nodding in the wind are not flowers but explosions caused by "sinister collisions of color...
...Worried? Ironically, Taylor was back in the U.S. for consultation when his 101st faced its darkest moments of the war. Attacking in the last-ditch Battle of the Bulge, the Germans surrounded the division at Bastogne. When a delegation arrived to negotiate for the surrender of the 101st, Tony McAuliffe, the acting commander, became one of the most famous soldiers of World War II by firing back a one-word answer: "Nuts." Meanwhile, Taylor was frantically trying to get a plane ride back to Europe. "I've got 10,000 sons," he kept telling his wife, "and they...