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...there appeared so far no clinching sign that the enemy was in general retreat or that his morale had cracked. He still counterattacked, resisted fiercely, took back several nameless ridges. He had plenty of ammo. For days his own radio kept mum about the Inchon landing. U.N. planes dropped 3,000,000 leaflets, breaking the news and calling on him to surrender or die. At week's end his choice was still death, not surrender...
...born at Eisleben, Saxony, in 1483. His father was a tightfisted miner who had fought his way up to foundry owner. Old Hans sent his son to read law at the University of Erfurt, but Martin's sensitive mind became preoccupied with fear for his soul. A nameless, periodic and overwhelming despair seized him. It had been acute for about six months when the lightning struck...
...strong on the momentum she had picked up on the wrong side of the tracks. Her relentless determination to get to the top had flung her from speakeasies to street-singing to bandstands, then onto Broadway and into the startled public eye as the frenzied high priestess of a nameless chaos-with-music that has been wrongly called jitterbugging...
Guerard's war is fought in a small nameless country on the Continent, between the sullen, deteriorating armies of Western Allies and a "dictatorship." He tells most of his story through the narrative of an intelligence sergeant, sent up from a rear area for propaganda work in the small country, the sergeant's home. The sergeant strains to find some sense in the war's contradictory orders, its faked broadcasts, its leaflets and rumors. Eventually he crosses the enemy lines to the city of his birth and tries to start life ever again as a workman. A rumored germ-warfare...
Judge Olti nodded, at last directed the prisoner to sit down. As Vogeler turned to find his chair, the spectators saw for the first time the face of the American who had been confined, friendless and isolated, under nameless dread and threat, for three months in a Red Hungarian jail...