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...these men feel about the war? A grimy, bearded infantryman spoke for thousands when he said to me: "I guess it all depends on how you look at it. The days it's my turn to go out on patrol and some jerk over there cuts down at me with a burp gun or whatever-why, then it's a hell of a big war for me that day. And the days I get to just lay around the bunker-with maybe only ten or 15 rounds incoming all day, and the Chinaman stays over...
...called him a jerk and not without reason...
...Will some layman . . . kindly explain to us why Young America is part worker, part soldier, drives a red bicycle to the left of the road, is moving at a fast clip but getting nowhere, and isn't looking where he's going? Young America, my foot! This jerk is right out of the Kremlin. LEWIS WILLIAMS Philadelphia...
...Connally rumbled: "How could a President do anything at all if all you had to do was to station a man out in front of the White House and take down the name of anybody who went into the White House to see the President and then jerk him up before a committee and say: . . . 'Tell us what he said. Tell us what you said...
...happy, fine. But ... our relationship was never mad or romantic. I'm not the type of person to give anything to anybody for anything, if you know what I mean." However, her troubles with Sidney increased. He got "terribly jealous and possessive." Said she, reminiscently: "A real jerk!" And on top of that, he kept embarrassing her with more & more gifts...