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...never forget was Sergeant Watanabe, who made prisoners do "pushups" over latrine troughs until they collapsed with their faces in the excrement, who beat Zamperini on the head until he bled, gave him bits of paper to staunch the wounds and when the blood stopped, said "Oh, it stop, eh?" and beat him again. Watanabe had a head like a frog's. The prisoners called him "The Bird...
Almost stone-deaf, M. Claude wore in court a cumbersome hearing device of his .own invention It did not work very well. When the jury returned a verdict, he said: "Eh?" The presiding judge shouted louder. Still the old man did not hear. Finally his counsel put his lips to Claude's ear, bawled: "Life imprisonment!" The old man nodded. Wagging his head mournfully, he was led away...
...Drew her, eh," said the second most powerful Russian thoughtfully. "I must ask Mme. Sheremetiev to lend her to me awhile. That barn of mine is a perfect shambles...
...greeting: "Wipe that smile off, Mr. Dumbjohn, or whatever your name is! Brace up! Suck up your guts! More! Get rid of that gabardine coat! Get those shoulders back! Pull your chin in! Further! Further! Where 're you from? The Navy? What part of the Navy? Oh, Annapolis, eh? . . ." The next few minutes of scorn were enough to wither an asbestos monkey...
Elsewhere things were going well for the Tenth. Marines of the III Amphibious Corps reached the northern end of Okinawa and cleared the last resistance pockets on Motobu peninsula. Units of the 77th Division landed on nearby le (pronounced ee-eh), seized a big airfield and secured the island...