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...close calls ... at midnight occasionally I'd suddenly recall, sleepy and half ready for bed, that I had not taken next day's column down to the newspaper office. So I'd dress again, and take it down-often on a cold, snowy, rainy, blustery, calm, moonlit night . . . I don't know the reason why I missed today's deadline-but it had better be a darned good one ... I've busted a perfect record...
This was relatively easy. The only rail road running east from Cairo to the Egyptian outposts along the Israeli border crosses the Suez Canal by a small swing bridge at El Ferdan (see.map). One night last week, a British lieutenant quietly led his platoon along the moonlit sand dunes approaching the bridge, where Egyptian soldiers stood on guard. There was a short, fierce battle, but in 15 minutes five Egyptians were dead and the British, with no casualties, had the bridge...
...three weeks, we waited. I didn't sleep a single night. I quarreled with my family, who wanted me to stay, but we had made our decision. On a moonlit night, the three of us met in the town and headed through the fields for the frontier. We were 20 yards from the border when someone began whistling in Morse code to the border guard. So we crept swiftly back to town. The next night we made...
...told, about ten thousand students in our fair university which every day seems to assume more and more the aspect of a crimson funeral parlor. It's a funny thing, but my Chem 1 course has more noise and people than the group which braved the moonlit evening to cheer our boys to victory tonight. How do we expect fight in a football team when the cheering section has the semblance of a professional mourners' society...
...Crusade's 1951 chairman, Harold Stassen, and Fellow Crusaders C. D. Jackson and Drew Pearson, looking like three Statues of Liberty, held high above their heads big rubber balloons. At signal they solemnly let go. The balloons rose into a cloud-flecked, moonlit sky. Then for several hours hydrogen hissed from tanks as some 2,000 other balloons were filled and released in the glare of lamps from a truck convoy...