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...chaos, there were not even any boats to evacuate the wounded, many of whom died on Omaha of injuries that would have been treatable on any other beach. By late morning, amid the crushing noise, violence and justifiable fear racing through the air, some troops managed to drag themselves up the cliffs in small fighting forces. By the end of the day, at a cost too high to be measured in mere statistics, they took the beach and carved out a piece of Free France 2 miles wide and 6 miles long...
...surviving officers to get off the beach and up to higher ground. But it would be some time before enough courage returned for us to attempt it. One or two times I was able to control my fear enough to race across the sand to drag a helpless G.I. from drowning in the incoming tide. That was the extent of my bravery that morning...
Chang, who won the award after only one year of teaching, said he approached his lab section from the mentality that “a lot of people think of labs as a drag, and I said I’m going to make this as fun and laid-back as possible...
...pilot, in which a crunchy vegetarian from California swapped with a neat freak from New Jersey, got a lot of laughs. Still, you have to be anxious about a show that defines women entirely in terms of their homemaking. I mean, do we really want reality TV to drag women back to the 1950s? Oh, wait - "The Bachelor" already took care of that. Carry on, then! Meanwhile, on "The Benefactor," billionaire Mark Cuban is giving away a million dollars to the average American who can best help him achieve his humanitarian goal: stealing publicity from Donald Trump...
...problem arises when students take classes they don’t want to take. I had a particularly disastrous run-in with Science B last year where I learnt an invaluable lesson: If you drag your heels, it’s not only going to take you a long time to get to the biology labs. It’s also going to be difficult to get much out of the course. This class, which shall remain nameless to protect the innocent, involved a lot of naming different kinds of vertebrates, drawing different kinds of plants, and measuring water levels...