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...headlong fate, be happiness...
Before the hour expired, the Duce, who in his fustian prime had bellowed to his followers, "If I retreat, kill me!" was in headlong flight. At 9 p.m. he reached Como near the Swiss border. At 2 a.m. Thursday he sent an envoy to ask Swiss authorities to grant asylum to his wife, Donna Rachele, and their children. The Swiss emphatically declined. About 6 a.m. Mussolini sneaked northward presumably in the hope of reaching Germany. According to one report he joined a German truck convoy trying unsuccessfully to disguise himself in a German officer's overcoat. He was spotted...
...bread he had made from rice flour. Rifle fire shattered the darkness. A Jap sentry, standing on a watch tower listening to the night's hush, tumbled to the earth. The crump of grenades mingled with ripping bursts from automatic weapons. Japs screamed orders, fell before the headlong rush of dimly seen figures brandishing knives and pistols. Unmistakably American voices yelled: "This is a prison break-make for the main gate! These are Yanks...
This jockeying of the Big Three for new fields ran headlong into politics in Iran, now bubbling with feeling against foreigners. In recognition of this, the Shah bluntly told oilmen that no new concessions will be granted till war's end and all foreign troops leave the country. But oilmen took this with a grain of political salt. In prewar years, roughly 20% of Iranian' revenue came from royalties and taxes on oil pumped from the south Iran fields of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. If new fields are opened up, Iran's national income...
Later, with a single shot from a captured howitzer, Mosby smashed a locomotive, got away with a $173,000 Union payroll. Often trapped, he invariably escaped by charging headlong into his would-be captors. Often wounded and reported dead, he always turned up again more daring and dangerous than before. His name became "a synonym in the South for brave deeds and daring escapades, a byword in the North for fear and hatred and chagrin...