Word: dunkirk
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John R. Silvestro Dunkirk...
...immense story that Richard Collier (The City That Wouldn 't Die, The Sands of Dunkirk) attempts to tell. He has selected perhaps the only popular method possible: a compact narrative out of which the reader may pull facts and anecdotes as if from an endless Pandora's box Of Kleenex...
...water, water everywhere, no one could complain that there was not a drop to drink. Ordering the bars open round the clock and all grog on the house, dapper Skipper Peter Jackson kept the bands going, the jollity flowing, for two drifting days. "It was all a little like Dunkirk," said one ship's officer. "You know, we English do have a talent for snatching triumph from the jaws of disaster...
...sprinkling," he said. The baskets were therefore opened, and the turtles, gray-green creatures ranging from three to eleven inches in length, were given the run-or crawl-of two vast warehouses. The veterinarian looked in on them twice a day, the longshoremen cooled them with sprinklers, and the Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce sent them several thousand heads of lettuce. "If they were looking for lettuce," boasted Michel Duquesne, one of the suppliers, "they came to the right place. The area around Dunkirk is full of lettuce...
...turtles, who actually come from the dry foothills of the Atlas Mountains, found the lettuce strange and exotic to their taste. A number of them became sick from overeating. Some of the healthier turtles managed to escape out into the streets of Dunkirk. Special barriers had to be built. Debruyne, meanwhile, received the bills for the regular care and feeding of the turtles-all 25,000 of them. He also had to pay for the veterinarian. "What a silly idea, taking the turtles out of their baskets and stuffing them with lettuce," he fumed. "They could have easily fasted...