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...nearby mountains of Auvergne; the U. S. charge d'affaires, driving to meet the new Ambassador, got only 20 miles from the capital. Still partially blacked out each night, cold, cheerless, waiting, Vichy lay paralyzed under the storm, a fitting symbol of the France that has lain half-paralyzed ever since her defeat...
...broadcast in German went placidly on with only a few seconds' interruption. Score for this bombing of Broadcasting House, belated details of which were suppressed until last week: seven deaths among men and women who went right on working in the record library where the unexploded bomb had lain...
Chechakho London would have approved of Sourdough Robertson, who knew he must die, but begrudged his body to the wolves. A searching party found the oldtimer last week. He had deliberately lain down in the stream, let the freezing water trickle over him as he settled down to sleep. The tracks of baffled wolves were all around, but the body of Sourdough Robertson was encased peacefully...
...although it stretches far beyond the city limits. Lake Washington is beautiful but sometimes a nuisance. Seattle's main gateway to the east is North Bend on the Sunset Highway, until recently a 42-mile ride. The road could have been 14 miles shorter had not Lake Washington lain athwart...
According to Scoopster Wythe Williams, M. Laval repeated his report. Suddenly, like a Nazi delayed bomb, Edouard Daladier, who had for some weeks lain quiet as a dud, exploded. It was all the fault of this disgraceful rout in Flanders, he raged...