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...fast enough last week. The fall of Bengasi was brought about by swift execution of the familiar tactic of the giant pincer. While the main Australian force chased Italians along the coast, a mechanized force branched across the hump of Cyrenaica to form the pincer's nether jaw. This body, meeting little resistance other than a sandstorm which choked carburetors as well as throats, headed for a spot about 50 miles south of Bengasi-just below Soluch, the southern terminus of a short railway spur which runs down the coast from Bengasi. The British force straddled the highway...
...rejected by Army physicians in New York City. Dogged John Shea hotfooted it to a dentist's office, held his mouth open for ten and a half hours while the dentist drilled and filled. Out came three teeth; in went two bridges, four fillings, five crowns. Next day jaw-sore Patient Shea smiled a false-toothy smile for Army physicians, jumped happily on the train that took his outfit to camp...
...keeping the minority virtuous, he had purged so many revolutionary bigwigs that the little wigs, in self-defense decided to purge him. On the 9th Thermidor (July 27, 1794), his comrades outlawed Robespierre, seized and bound him. The fallen dictator lay on the floor of the Commune, his jaw shattered by a poorly aimed bullet...
Questions, to be submitted by members of the student body, will relate to general information and also to problems dealing with technical phases of the jaw...
...week's end, the infected tooth which had been bothering the Duchess had been pulled, and she was reading her fan mail in a hospital, nursing a sore jaw...