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...line to road depots before the thaw. On March 9, they tumbled off the train at dingy Dawson Creek station, staked stiff canvas tents under the northern lights. "Jeez, it was so cold," a Bronx private remarked, "that every time we had hot stew for chow, the goddam stuff froze before we could eat." Behind the troops came trucks, road machinery, supplies, gas, diesel fuel and planks from torn-down CCC camps...
...Army Air Forces. London newspapers said so. Some U.S. correspondents picked up the story. On both sides of the Atlantic people found the report all too easy to believe: it was in character with so much that had gone before, so like those bloody Americans or the goddam British...
...economic idiocy. He was Democratic county chairman in 1940 when Glenn Taylor won the nomination and at once resigned in disgust, announcing that he would support the Republican nominee, who was, said he, an economic illiterate but not quite a complete imbecile. He calls Cowboy Taylor a "goddam pettifogging demagogue...
...naval officer laughed. "Oh, they've got me on shore duty," he said. "Nursing these goddam land mines...
...wended endless miles of desolate country, relieved only by hundreds of gold-leafed temples. Once I saw a yellow-skirted Poonghie-a Burmese priest-and the driver screamed: "Goddam priests, every other one of 'em is a traitor or a Japanese in disguise and nobody dares touch 'em for fear of starting an insurrection." Later I saw Chinese soldiers leading a priest, two handsome Burmese with long flowing hair, bare to the waist and hands tied behind their backs, to be executed...