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...Coffin Lid. The turning point of the air war came when the Allies sent long-range fighters-Mustangs, Lightnings and Thunderbolts-to escort daylight bombers deep into the Reich. Engaged on equal terms, and soon outnumbered, the Messerschmitts came off worst. Knoke was shot down twice more in a month, but even after he suffered a fractured skull, he flew on. "Every time I have an enemy in my sights ... I watch him crash, coldly and dispassionately, without any sense of triumph...
...Samuel Lubell said in The Future of American Politics, "The same 'better element' in the community who kept the racial lid on during the first primary let it blow in the runoff." The fact that the GOP "better element" has never been too effective in keeping the lid on hardly destroys the parallel; especially when the files of the Justice Department and even certain Canadian documents have been invoked to make the explosion more devastating than ever. No move or series of moves could do more to divert attention from the tasks at hand, to preclude a reasoned approach...
Brown stages two "all-college" blasts, one at homecoming in the fall, and the other in the spring. To a man, fraternity member and independent drink together. The quadrangle echoes with the Brown songs that were once scattered over the West side of Providence. At such times the lid is off, Somehow the quad effectively confines and unifies the merrymaking...
...first program of the series, Shipyard Worker Roland Allen told how one day he was inside a ship's fuel tank, welding a lid, when he found that the lid's bolts, which he had tightened with his fingers because he had forgotten his wrench, would not come unscrewed, and he was trapped inside. "The first thought that came to me was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon to be read in all Christian Science churches the next day, 'God the Preserver of Man.' I kept this in mind and prayed as I had been taught...
...bolts out with my fingers . . . Finally I realized I must stop these efforts and trust wholly in God ... I waited quietly, and it came to me, 'Take out the pin to the hinge.' The argument came, 'What good will that do, the bolts hold the lid.' But I followed the voice...