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...fleeting taste. Flame from the gun stabbed the dusk and in Kahului mongrel dogs howled and ran for cover. A shell crashed ashore, In the dun-colored houses along Kahului's waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage...
...Duranty wrote: "Imagine yourself standing at the corner of a dusty street. . . . The houses are mostly low wooden structures with dirty windowpanes or gaping holes like bleared and sightless eyes. . . . Opposite there is a handsome dwelling, formerly the home of a rich merchant. A broad garden is dotted with dun-colored bundles, motionless. . . . They are children...
...troops, the Army had a job ahead. Somehow the soldier had to be fired with pride in his job. Today, working away at his term of service and anxious to get out, the draftee who makes up most of the Army is a guy in a baggy, ill-fitting, dun-colored suit. If he gets no lift from his job, it is partly because civilians do not recognize him for what he is: a self-sacrificing server and defender of his country...
...made his color shots. They are infinitely more frightening than a black-&-white bombing. The camera pans from the neat Japanese formations of 36 planes in threes in the blue sky to the crimson splash of bursting bombs, the lavender and purple clouds of smoke and debris, the dun-colored houses standing above the muddy river, to the bodies burned black in the white-hot ashes of demolished dwellings. Only thing missing is the red flash of anti-aircraft guns. Of these, Chungking had pitifully...
...cattle country, grass spread thick and tall over the grazing lands. Ponds and wells, for the first time in years, were filled to the brim. Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming were blanketed with fields of wild flowers. Cactus blossoms ranged over the desert, turning the dun earth blue and yellow and orange. On the flanks of Colorado's mountains, snow reached farther down than the oldest citizen could remember. Snow-fed streams would run full this summer...