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...leadership, announced they would fight enough seats next election to form a government if they won. Cried the Dublin Irish Times, which does not like Eire's gloomy Prime Minister Eamon de Valera: "General Mulcahy's speech comes like a draught of fresh air into the fetid atmosphere of Irish make-believe...
Morning found us at divisional headquarters waiting to move up. But the attack was bogging down. I trudged over, to the hospital to see the wounded. Casualties had been heavy and hospital orderlies were working fitfully among the bloody, uncomplaining bodies. The smell of the old barn and the fetid, heavy odor of sickness was crushing. I asked the director where he got his medical training. He said, "I am self-taught. I joined the army medical service four years...
Never have I read such a funny story, and I've fished for steelhead (and caught a few) in Oregon and Northern California. I have yet to see anyone using "walnut-sized gobs of goof" for bait and a "fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait." Sounds" too much like cleaning a stopped sewer...
...homemade -from coffee cans and bicycle baskets. Now they use 15-ox. rods & reels with jewel bearings. Equipment includes cans of "goof" (salmon eggs) for bait, a spool of red thread (to tie walnut-sized gobs of goof on the hook), a whiskey bottle and a "gob rag" - a fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait...
...Author Seghers does not set out simply to tell the story of her hero. She uses him as a device to stir the fetid waters of Nazi life in order to bring to the surface of that stagnant pool those individual emotions, beliefs and acts of courage and humanity that the Nazis like to keep concealed. This is a book of people, not of techniques of escape...