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...midmorning two French battalions had disembarked and advanced up each side of a creek, combing the adjoining marshland in extended squad formation. They made no contact with the enemy. An air liaison officer had called out three fighter planes (P-63 Kingcobras) for reconnaissance and strafing. As they circled overhead, sometimes diving earthward, a lieutenant said, "It's always like this-like pushing your finger into butter. The butter spreads and when you pull your finger out you don't have much. Well, anyway, when the Viet Minh come out of hiding they'll find life difficult...
...marriage of a middle-aged man to a young woman? Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as "a novel of husbands and wives," it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge Timberlane, of the Minnesota district court, and Virginia Marshland, draftsman and designer for the Fliegend Fancy Box and Pasteboard Toy Manufacturing Company...
Wolfs Clothing. In Union City, N.J., Deputy City Game Warden William Kuhn conjectured that the timber wolf prowling the Hudson County marshland had probably entered from Canada last December- in a carload of Christmas trees...
...Benito Mussolini it had been a Latin pageant: the refurbishing of old Roman monuments and the building of new ones; marshland drained and colonies settled; a corporative state and the Balilla; adventure in Corfu, Ethiopia, Spain, Albania, Greece and Egypt; the dream of Mare Nostrum and the grandest of Mediterranean empires...
...Excellent. This was one answer. The next had to come from builders. On a frozen marshland in South Portland, Me., Todd-Bath had laid out a yard in mid-winter of 1941. Six months later the Maine builders laid the first keels of a British contract for 30 of the British prototypes, launched the first two by Dec. 20. Todd-Richmond in California, with 30 more to build for England, had one launched, delivered and bustling off to Britain ten months after signing the contract...