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...unlikely occurrence since most of India's 176 million cow population perform the useful function of providing motive power, milk, and dung for fuel. The relatively small number of aged cattle who roam the streets and paths are cared for like beggars by the community. Their meager grass ration is no serious drain on food resources...
...meager score of existing guitar literature he had added more than 150 of his own transcriptions of works for harpsichord, lute, violin and piano by the world's great composers. Modern composers, hearing Segovia, began writing music especially for the guitar...
...About the Sergeant." Sitting on the roadside and munching their cold rations, the G.I.s discussed the battle. Some meager loot-a few Russian Tommy guns and occasional pistols-was the object of interest. Three G.I.s in a jeep posed grandly for a Signal Corps photographer, with a North Korean flag taken from a fallen enemy. But G.I.s had found, in the pockets of dead Korean Reds, all too many reminders that the Reds, for their part, had looted the American dead. One G.I. said wryly: "Every time I hit one of those bastards, I get a fresh package of Lucky...
...first game Hicks set a fast pace. Using an unorthodox side stroke, something like a golfer's putting stroke, he played around the course without a miss, posted a perfect 26. Reckitt, sticking to the conventional between -the -knees swing, flubbed early, got a meager eight, and Hicks won the game: plus-18, i.e., the difference in scores...
...since World War II. Moreover, it would take Cadillac nine months, the Army warned, to make its first tank. For the time being, the Army would have to rely on its own $70 million Detroit tank arsenal. The only plant currently producing tanks, it is turning out only a meager twelve a day, half of them the heavy, 48-ton General Patton (see cut). The arsenal last week ordered its single eight-hour shift stepped up to two ten-hour shifts, boosted its orders for air-cooled engines from Continental Motors and for transmissions from G.M.'s Allison, sought...