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...lives on Haverford's cricket green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which he once played and which remains a major one at the college. Quaker Jones held to his pacifist principles through the World War, helped organize the Service Committee afterward to mop up wherever possible in its wake. Good-humored, he is fond of telling stories about his Quakerism, such as how a conservative Friend, at a Philadelphia meeting at which Dr. Jones was to speak, arose and prayed: "Oh Lord, prepare our minds and hearts for the untruths we are about...
...shipment had been sent too late, for the same day a French squadron of bombing planes droned low over Amouda, dropped their explosives on ramshackle huts. Motorized infantry units swept into the village to mop up, and the planes roared away to disperse Kurd concentrations in three other villages...
Brandishing a mop in an axe-like manner, a five-eater was swabbing the third story windows. An assistant directed the hose on the panes at the same time; so dirt didn't have much chance of staying on the outside...
...field general directed operations from below, and furnished instructions in mop technique, which were a sad contrast to the Department's usual efficiency...
...follow the ship ahead, until it sank or fell out of line, turning in helpless circles. By nightfall (the action began at 2 p. m.) the Russians were trying only to escape. Till midnight they were harried by torpedo attacks. Next morning brought the main Japanese fleet again to mop up the survivors. By then most of the Russian ships had had enough, struck their colors. Rozhestvensky had been carried off the burning wreck of the Suvoroff-sunk by torpedoes shortly afterwards-to a destroyer, the Buinyi. Next day he was transferred to the destroyer Bedovyi which surrendered...