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...midnight to comb her grey hair. One stone built into a church carried a strange local legend. A farmer told Mrs. Rudge that the people who built the church brought the pudding stone down from a hill, and three times the devil carried the stone back to its lone hilltop. So the church was built on the hill, and the stone stayed with...
Talal stepped wearily into his Cadillac and began the ride to lonely isolation in the white stone Basman Palace, on a hilltop overlooking his capital. Then came the surprise. As his speeding car kicked up swirling dust, thousands of his subjects-disregarding instructions-lined the road from the airport to roar a feverish welcome. Men waved banners: "Welcome Back, Great Hashemite King" and "Come Back to Your Kingdom." From the rooftops, veiled women chanted a wailing Arabic song...
...went into the trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry-go, patrols, digging; digging, patrols, sentry-go. On every hilltop, Fascist or Loyalist, a knot of ragged, dirty men shivering round their flag and trying to keep warm. And all day and night the meaningless bullets wandering across the empty valleys and only by some rare improbable chance getting home on a human body...
...killed by a whisper." One day last week a whisper reached the Suffolk Regiment's "B" Company that Communists were in the vicinity of Ulu Selangor. Next morning a party of three armed and uniformed male Communists and two women Communists walked into a British ambush on a hilltop rubber plantation. One woman, surprised, pulled a grenade from her blouse, flung it at the British and fled. British bullets brought down the others, among them Communist Commander Long Pin, No. 1 terrorist of North Selangor with a price of $8,000 on his head. British High Commissioner Sir Gerald...
Twenty-two acres of craggy hilltop and ten Tudor buildings straddle the Yonkers--Bronxville, New York borderline. Once the estate of William van Duzer Lawrence, the Sarah Lawrence campus now boasts 350 good-looking women and some definite ideas about educating them...