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...Party. It appeared (unsigned) in a box usually devoted to Signor Giannini's comments. Said Good Sense: "We would like to invite people like Vishinsky to duel in the Neapolitan way, with nothing else in hand than our most noble knife, cold iron helped only by a sure forearm and stout heart and not by whole continents of seaports, mines and factories...
First came a whiplike crack. The rocket, traveling faster than sound, set up a compression wave which bounced from the point of strike and hit the ear a split second before the terrific crump as the explosive let go-just time enough to flex a forearm across the face against the inevitable gale of glass and rubble fragments. Then, after V-2 had arrived, survivors heard the slower sound of its coming: an ear-filling roar which gradually diminished, finally losing itself...
...shark had bitten a thin slab off the top of the right forearm. On the under side were teeth marks, half an inch deep. Back on the raft, Nagurney had his arm bandaged, but he was not finished. A lieutenant (j.g.) had become delirious and had taken a swag of sea water. Nagurney pounced on him, rammed his finger down the officer's throat to make him vomit. The lieutenant bit Nagurney's finger. Nagurney's summation: "I guess I'm the only guy that's ever been bit by a shark and an officer...
...separate cars, the Churchills and the Roosevelts motored up the steep hills to Quebec's Citadel, an ancient fortress, surrounded by a deep moat, its entrance barred with iron chains the width of a man's forearm...
...have sent back from the South Pacific there have been a few Japanese soldiers' skulls. They were also shocked to read last week (in Drew Pearson's Merry-go-Round), that Pennsylvania's Representative Francis Walter presented Franklin Roosevelt "with a letter-opener made from the forearm of a Jap soldier killed in the Pacific. He apologized for so small a part of the Jap's anatomy. F.D.R. did not touch it but lit a cigaret...