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...longer listless, Hindus in the Girgaun ran riot. Four double-decker busses were wrecked. One was set afire, blazed high in the sky. Traffic snarled. Foreigners were stoned. So were police, who answered with tear gas, then fired directly into the crowds. The small boy ran from one trouble spot to another. Finally he remembered some blackjacks that he knew about. He got them, took up a stand on the street corner, sold them for one rupee each...
Madagascar stands like a listless but potentially powerful sentinel athwart the vital supply line that feeds the United Nations salient separating Jap from German. In ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope go planes and tanks and men to fight, from Egypt to Calcutta. They pass within range of Madagascar's bases. North of the island, aircraft can be flown across the Indian Ocean to Australia or Ceylon. And in Madagascar's fields and harbors, planes and ships can be refueled and repaired...
Food was running out and men were getting leaner on a diet of carabao (water buffalo), cavalry horses and mules, but they stayed on their feet and fought until the burning fever of malaria laid them out. Thousands of prostrated fighting men jammed the field hospitals. Others, listless, weary and sometimes out of their heads hung on with their outfits where they were more liabilities than assets...
Tommy Ayres was the only scorer in a listless first period. Early in the second stanza Captain Dick Mechem pulled the best stunt of the game, skating through the entire Hebron squad for the second score. Then Hebron's defense fell completely to pieces, and the Yardlings rang up three tallies in less than two minutes. Stan Collinson, Dick Whittington and Dave Farrell netted the puck in the Crimson spurt...
When nightfall shut off the brief winter afternoon, the train was sliding swiftly south toward Vermont. Newsmen on the train were bored, listless, let down after the four days of pressure in Ottawa. They had watched 12,000,000 Canadians having their greatest day since the King & Queen visited in 1939; had heard the sturdily sesquipedalian Prime Minister of England wow the House of Commons with his oak-hearted phrases, with a tactful tribute (in French) to the loyal French-Canadians; they had listened as he recalled the 1940 prophecy of French generals, that "in three weeks England will have...