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During the worst days of London's blitz a church hung out a sign: IF YOUR KNEES KNOCK, KNEEL ON THEM...
...from an Ohio private to his wife: "It will be a different Christmas this year. The altar will be a fallen tree in this stinking jungle. All around there will be the stink of sweat, unwashed clothes and the fainter, sweeter smell of death. But as I kneel to pray I know you will be alongside me praying too, and that will make it a Happy Christmas, darling...
Harriet never tired of studying the regional types of the new nation. She was full of admiration for the Yankee who would not kneel to the Pope, but was willing to take off his hat. "The same respect," he said, "I would show to the President of the United States, and I can't show any more to anyone." But the Yankee who came to Washington did not seem happy. He appeared "to bear in mind perpetually that he cannot fight a duel, while other people can." Of Southern society, she said: "Its characteristic is a want of repose...
...midnight two masked Japanese got into Abend's apartment, forced him to kneel by twisting his arms. They kicked him in the small of his back, slapped his face. Then they made off with 354 typed pages of Abend's new book, did not touch valuable jewelry or $350 in cash...
...tremendous fire power. Said Colonel Williams: "We weren't trying for top firing speed with the big gun. . . . We might get up as high as 30 a minute." Any such rate of fire would take some doing. Two men load and fire the 75. The loader has to kneel in a tiny steel coop. Between the breech and a bulkhead, he has about three feet in which to work. When the gun recoils, he has something less than two feet. At 30 rounds a minute, the loader must, every two seconds, extract a 75-mm. shell casing from...