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...five minutes before noon one day last week, the whole Pacific slope of the State of Washington, and border areas of Oregon and British Columbia, began to twitch. Seattle's 42-story L. C. Smith Tower and hundreds of lesser structures began to groan and sway. Automobiles waltzed crazily on highways. Bridges creaked. Chandeliers swung like pendulums. Dishes and bells set up a wild jangling. A million people simultaneously felt shallow-breathed fear...
Dichard Fans Groan, Then Cheer Boudrean...
...record at Notre Dame was 41 victories, three defeats and four ties. But, as usual, the future looked black to Leahy. As his 72-man squad stepped briskly through its pre-season paces at South Bend last week, Leahy looked ahead to opening day and turned away with a groan. Said he: "September 25 is going to be a sad afternoon. I think Purdue will beat...
...fourth hit was a vicious line drive from Ted Williams' bat that struck Brissie's left leg and caromed toward first base. A groan swept the stands; Williams angrily kicked the first base bag, apparently blaming himself for something he couldn't be blamed for, watching the giant rookie writhing in pain on the grass behind the pitcher's mound. It was the same leg a German shell had shattered four years ago when Corporal Brissie, a bazooka man, was leading a squad in the mountains above Florence, Italy. It had taken 23 operations...
...Iron 2nd" Battalion had been hit by shrapnel and machine-gun fire in both hips, one knee and one eye, and left for dead. By sheerest luck, a German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan. He was taken to a German hospital. Two years later, after his parents had given him up for dead (memorial services for him had been held at Perth, Ont.), he came back, married a divorcee and settled down in the starchy provincialism of Canada's capital...