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...your own wound, so new you cannot yet feel it. There is a shot made through the slot of a tank of a Japanese soldier trying to evade the machine-gun bullets which stitch the ashes all around him. Bemused, almost hypnotized in his dreadful slowness, fumbling in the footless dust with much the clumsiness of a terrified rat, he half falls, at last, behind a mound. For a moment, before you think, you may hope he has made it alive; but you will never know...
Alvarez thinks it fairly certain that the patient is wearing herself out with footless worry...
Hart had deployed his Asiatic Fleet as far south as Borneo before the war began. He contends it would have been "footless" to bring his destroyers and cruisers into Luzon waters after control of the air had been lost. Twice-at Balikpapan and Bali -the Asiatic Fleet stalled the Jap drive southward, but (after Hart was relieved) "disaster soon followed and in the end we lost heavily-the Houston [cruiser], Pillsbury, Edsall and Pope [destroyers] were all lost in surface ship action at sea under circumstances about which we know little . . . yes, ships were lost, but it was not footless...
...ruined weekend belonged to Mr. Hoover. His Memorial Day holiday in Manhattan was rudely interrupted when the headless, handless, footless corpse of Peter Levine, 12, kidnapped from New Rochelle last February, was washed ashore in Long Island Sound. This was the first recurrence since 1936 of the post-Prohibition atrocities which FBI thought it had stamped out by relentless sleuthing. Last week it was promptly followed by another in Princeton, Fla., a hot-dog hamlet just below Miami, on the highway to Key West. There chubby, blond James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, had been...
Soon the newshawks were at their telephones and soon the country broke out with the first real flurry of 1940 Presidential headlines. It was all extremely premature and footless, but fairly funny and in some ways significant...