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...sank the super-battleship Yamato, sent out with a handful of destroyers as the only blue-water resistance that the imperial Japanese fleet could muster when the U.S. Navy came slamming up the island ladder to Okinawa on Easter Sunday 1945. So obviously sacrificial was Yamato's "last gasp" mission against Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet that the great ship was given only enough fuel for a one-way trip from Japan. The battle for Okinawa, at the homeland's very door, was the death struggle of Japan, and its capture was the largest, longest...
...shook as many as 2,500 hands a day, made their pitch at morning "coffees," afternoon teas and press conferences. Lady Bird explained Lyndon with wifely conviction: "Lyndon is the same man as before. He has never been embraced by extreme liberals or extreme conservatives." Ethel got an admiring gasp when she was introduced as the mother of seven children. Eunice drew sober attention with a summary of her brother's war record, his qualifications for the presidency ("It would take more than Jimmy Hoffa to scare my brother"), and took on the job of outlining Sister...
...arms, a waist hardly big enough to hold his trousers up, thick wrists, and leather-hard, outsized hands that can crumple a beer can as though it were tissue paper. Like baseball buffs, golf fans dote on the long-ball hitter; they pack six deep behind the tee to gasp in admiration as Powerman Palmer unwinds to send a 280-yd. drive down the fairway. Coldly precise in his study of the game, Palmer is anything but stolid during a round: he mutters imprecations to himself, contorts his face, sometimes drops his club and wanders away in disgust...
...flexor muscle, the chain began to reel out link by link, letting the weight down. Dr. Hellebrandt, in the harshest voice she could muster, snapped: "Hang on to it!" Marilyn's face was contorted in what is officially recognized as the "agony phase." She could only gasp, "I can't," and let the weight drop...
...countless British homes last week there was a gasp of disbelief. In London newspaper offices, gossip columnists hung their ignorant little heads in shame. To a few titled socialites the event was shocking. But to most everyone, once they got used to it, the news was splendid...