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Above all, Commandomen must learn to kill. They prefer to kill quietly. A favorite Commando weapon is a long, straight knife, both edges sharpened razor-keen, carried in a trouser sheath. Some have metal kneecaps, fitted with metal spikes, to be driven into enemy crotches and spines. They can devise their own daggers, clubs, knives. They know the uses of spiked brass knuckles. All must know a Commando equivalent of jiujitsu. Fiercely, without quarter, they battle each other in practice combat, often break each other's bones: a few nights before the St. Nazaire raid one officer...
...Labor Party voted unanimously for a post-war planned economy with nationalization of Britain's basic industries and services, including natural resources, transport and farm land. Keynoter for this resolution was keen, slender Economist Harold Laski. Said he: "We seek to end a system in which the many are the slaves of the few. We seek to end a system which makes ordinary men and women not ends in themselves, but means to the ends of others. We seek in this war, after victory, not a return to the Old World, but quite precisely the building...
...Silent Men. They read about China's "second front." All along the lost coast the silent men, the guerrillas, men who plough dumbly in daytime but are very keen at night, rose up and attacked. They raided Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow, Nanchang, Ningpo, Wuhu, Amoy. They tore up the rails of the Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway on the central front, tore down 2,000 assorted yards of Japanese telephone and telegraph lines, blew up four bridges. In Canton, down south, they had killed 500 Japanese, had blown up the telephone exchange...
...Yale will be out to dispute their sovereignty, and since by comparative scores, and on the basis of their dual meets, the Elis have a stronger team, the competition will be keen. LeRoy Schwartzkopf, great miler, leads Will Castle, Will Clark, Dick Detwiler, Sherwood Finley...
...used women in electrical assembly since the days of fancy aprons and high lace collars); 2) they are more immune to monotony than men, will keep at a tiresome job long after a man starts hanging around the canteen or water cooler; 3) they excel at inspection work where keen eyes and sensitive fingers often find flaws a man misses (Newton A. Woodworth, maker of engine parts, says it is easier to make a woman "quality conscious" than a man); 4) women workers are more docile than men workers; 5) last but not least, they stick at their jobs, respond...