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...novelty wore off, the ships might have been loading wheat, for all the thrill there was in it. Few even knew the names of the two ships which lay at the low, wooden naval wharf one night last week with slingloads of heavy ammunition swaying aboard in the glare of masthead lights...
Thousands in San Francisco, in Oakland and Alameda, in towns for 50 miles around, saw the glare in the sky and, seconds later, felt a rumbling earth shock. Windows broke in houses 20 miles away. Telephone lines were down; many a doctor and nurse blundered for hours before they found the scene of the disaster. It was dawn before Port Chicago could see what had happened...
Rockets' Red Glare. Overnight the news and rumors that trickled belatedly to China's rear changed from black to rosy pink. In the air-base city of Kweilin-in serious danger from the Japanese offensive-hasty defense works and evacuation of civilians were abandoned. TIME Correspondent Teddy White reported that rockets crimsoned the sky, firecrackers popped and pinwheels whirled, newsboys shrieked the tidings in late extras. At the American air bases where transports had been hurrying out refugees and stores, the grim mood lifted. G.I.s smiled, wiped the sweat from their faces, boasted happily: "We done it again...
...rare thing for a bird or a dog to twitter, bark or glare at its reflection (see cut). But unlike most such birds & beasts, the Rydal sparrow disdains all other windows and reflectors. So infatuated is the sparrow that it utterly ignores other sparrows, despite their "auxiliary attractions of smell and song...
...stood there in a sweat as the seconds ticked off. The ship was now caught in the full glare of the lights. It moved at bombing speed like a huge, whited apparition in the skies...