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...submarine, crippled, was still dangerous, and its deck guns were firing. On the Spencer's bridge a radioman dropped, clutching his belly. The ship's starboard davit had been smashed by a shell that sprayed fragments of steel over bridge, starboard passage and deck. Two men fell headlong in the passage, others reeled back from their posts...
...Author. Vigorous, radical Carey McWilliams is 37. A California attorney, he has charged headlong into the knottiest problems of California labor conditions, agriculture, land policy; enraged growers by plumping for collective ownership as the answer to California's farm problems (TIME, April 1, 1940). An organizer of The John Steinbeck Committee (bitter enemy of California's Associated Farmers), McWilliams was appointed (1939) California Commissioner of Immigration and Housing by newly elected Governor Culbert L. Olson. He held the post for four years, campaigned vigorously against Republican Nominee for Governor Earl Warren. When Warren, strongly supported by the Associated...
...trained and fought throughout the winter, the climax toward which the Tunisian campaign had been growing for months and which the enemy had tried to stave off with counter-attacks - the most recent of which, only two nights before, had cost him 33 tanks when his armor plunged headlong into British gun positions. It was a moment carefully chosen: the Eighth Army had taken Takrouna and was diverting Axis strength to the southwest; since before dawn other British units of the First Army had been attacking just to the south; before the next dawn American units would launch their attack...
...when a Halsey-commanded force will steam directly into enemy bases to carry the offensive in an all-out thrust. But Admiral Halsey is not the type to rush headlong into battle. Every move is being planned. He will make no move at sea toward an all-out battle until he knows he has at least a 70-30 chance of victory...
...purpose in writing this book has not been to present an argument for religious faith. . . . I have tried in writing, as in personal counseling, to begin with people as I have found them, and to confront religion only when, following the trail of their problems and needs, I ran headlong into it. Nevertheless, one does run headlong into...