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...defense by attack: hawk-nosed Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum. By mid-morning of the first day, his divisions had made contact with the Blacks. All night there was rifle fire from outposts along the Grass. Next dawn, Hugh Drum started the ball rolling. His first target was the flower of the Black Army: the motorized, mobile, battle-scarred Fighting First. Stationed on the Black Army's north flank, the First failed to watch the bank of the St. Lawrence, off to their right. There Hugh Drum started a flanking march by Maryland and Virginia infantry units, a company...
...clock in the afternoon of Aug. 20, 1940. Leon Trotsky finished his tea and strolled through a door of his house into a grass-grown, flower-strewn patio. He wandered about, pausing now & then to enjoy that most bourgeois of bourgeois things: a garden, not for food, but for pleasure. Geraniums were sprouting from pots, roses bursting in bloom, chickens cackling in coops, rabbits copulating in warrens, birds twittering with sunset nervousness in trees that overhung the 20-foot garden wall. The trees cast flickering shadows across the patio. The sky over Mexico City was sharp, clear blue, with puffy...
...Gundicar and Gunderic, who, coming from Germany, carved a kingdom for themselves in the bosom of degenerate Gaul. In the summer he pruned his grapevines, hunted Germanic relics on his land, and penned iambic attacks on the Latin descendants of those Gauls who finally crushed the flower of Burgundian knighthood...
...long, narrow, oak-paneled Liberal Smoking Room (No. 497), and set about considering the strategic possibilities of eastern Canada and the northeastern U. S. The proposed lease of British bases to the U. S. was largely outside their bailiwick. Asked what he expected of the conference, the Little Flower of Manhattan snapped: "Results...
...these people moved through landscapes that Critic Brooks sees empathically as if through their eyes. "The wild flowers set the note of Whittier's country. . . . The pastoral stretches along the rivers, with their long lines of barns and sheds, blossomed with shadbush, the 'shad-blow,' for April in these valleys was the time of shadding, and the fish gave its name to flower and bird...