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Caught In the Glare. Getting to the front, General Walker made his business short and to the point. On a long, flat stretch of road (used at the moment as an improvised landing strip for liaison planes), he went over the situation with one of his division commanders. Then he started visiting colonels and majors. Sometimes, gesturing at map positions with a stubby forefinger, he made crisp suggestions for trimming lines or improving positions. Sometimes he silently absorbed information, left without a word...
...remove the high polish from cars and furniture, spray with clear liquid wax; to take the glare from mirrors, apply a mixture of epsom salts and stale beer; such shiny surfaces as oilcloth can be toned down with a spray of shaving lotion...
...Benton Harbor had heard a plane roar low, thought she saw a burst of flame over the water. A retired Navy captain reported the same thing-a flash that rivaled the lightning, "flames for a number of seconds-nearly a minute, then light smoke in the lightning's glare." He took a quick bearing on the explosion, made a sailor's guess of a distance of 20 miles...
...stoops of the rotting brownstone tenements, or stand in curiously static groups around a store front. There are girls in short, shiny black dresses, insolent-eyed young bucks in sharp, striped suits. Dogs, furtive and thin-ribbed, slink through the areaways sniffing for scraps. In an abandoned building, windows glare emptily, but a family is living in the basement. From other windows patched with adhesive tape and cardboard, women watch the noisy street with worried eyes. They seldom scream-at the kids, as women of other lands...
...bombarded by a steady hail of wealth, both real and potential. Smith drew $1,367 in back pay; Bender more than $3,000. They began getting dizzying offers (the Navy estimated that they might split $100,000) from publishers, magazines, radio and television companies. When they walked into a glare of newsreel lights at Pearl Harbor for a press conference, they acted as if they had gone through some 20th Century looking glass and into a world where everybody had gone completely, if delightfully, nuts...