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Final Instructions. Just before he left, he made a short speech to all the officers of the division. It was such a speech, as the one in which he was quoted as saying: "This stuff about tremendous losses [in the invasion] is tommyrot." But that comment was no gush of rash optimism; in context it was a simple statement of Bradley's faith in the fighting qualities of U.S. infantrymen...
...inventor of the new technique, a grey-thatched, mild-mannered engineer named Leo Ranney, beamed triumphantly at his guests. His oil mine had got off to a good start. If it lived up to its beginnings, Ranney had hit on a simple way to make old oilfields gush again. Pennsylvania's old wells, though they still yield the richest crude oil in the world, have slowed down to an average of less than half a barrel a day from each well. From his single shaft at Franklin, Ranney expects to get more than...
...patient who vomits a little blood may simply have ruptured a small blood vessel after prolonged retching; if he really has a gastric hemorrhage from ulcer, he is likely to gush a pint of blood...
Where Trio fails, and fails badly, is in Author Baker's artificial simplicity. Fear of the frightening depths and complexities of human emotions, fear of her own sentimentality drives her, as it drives Steinbeck and Hemingway, to find safety in a false toughness, to gush, and at the same time to deny the gush by freezing it in the casual chilliness of slang and jargon. Example: "Suddenly look at him out of the bottoms of the green eyes with the fringy lashes, sock her fingers into that wig of hair, twist that lovely perplexed...
...gasped the radioman, Julius Petrella. "Gimme something quick." As they picked him up gently, a warm, thick gush spilled from his back and darkly stained the deck. In his eyes was the hurt surprise of a man looking into unexpected death (it came within the hour). Hastily the sick bay was emptied of regular patients for the wounded...