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...jeep Giraud banged along over 500 miles of rough terrain. At one point a mine blew up a jeep directly ahead of him. Heedless of danger, Giraud rushed forward, found that a Foreign Legion lieutenant, one of his close friends, had been killed. In other mined areas he strode about, heedless of possible explosions, explaining that if sappers walked there generals could...
Most exciting moment occurred Monday evening when late diners and hangers-on at the mess hall were privileged to witness the geyser of water which burst forth from the starboard coffee urn.... A loud cheer went up in admiration of Miss Opal Bowers, of the Cowie Hall staff, who, heedless of losing that new curl, rushed into the torrential shower and closed the offending valve...
Curious soldiers clustered on a New Guinea riverbank. As the late afternoon sunlight slanted through coconut-palm fronds, a raft drifted around the river bend. Small frizzled-haired Papuan natives guided it slowly to shore. Heedless of cries of "Don't bother, we'll get it for you" from the soldiers on the bank, four Australian soldiers aboard the raft slowly gathered up possessions that only a soldier can truly treasure-firearms, rain capes, a few battered odds & ends. As they turned their sunken eyes shoreward, the shouting and chatter of the spectators ceased. The crowd parted...
...last stronghold of the Harvard of 1942 will remain, to all appearances unchanged. Yes, externally the same, the Lampoon Building will still exist, heedless of the swirling currents of humanity that pass and crash at its corner. But inside its three walls things will be different, for after having served the functional purpose of an airraid shelter during the War, the Lampoon will have been turned over to the Boston Elevated Railway as a subway station...
...School of Agriculture at Lafayette, 25 miles away. He graduated in 1915, with old-fangled resolve and new-fangled ideas, went back to Section 29. He tested the soil, found it sour, made a homely epigram: "We're mining the soil-not farming it." He began experimenting. Heedless of neighbors' alarms that he would kill the soil forever, he strewed phosphorus on the fields. He did nothing but farm, talked only about farming. His horizon stretched as far as he could see from his hog pastures; no farther...