Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indeed good to find that TIME does not feel obliged to bay with the rest of the editorial pack where Charles de Gaulle and the French Committee of National Liberation are concerned. Judging by what I have recently heard and read, most people cannot see anything of the essential justice of the Fighting French cause, but are completely obsessed with the intractable, choleric, and tactless soldier who heads the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
Morning came and the Commando-men splashed ashore, each carrying his 60-lb. pack and wearing a green beret (they scorn the steel helmet as a needlessly heavy encumbrance). They skirted beach mines, passed pillboxes, dodged gunfire, and started the long, tough fight inland...
...after they had pushed through the zone of mortar and artillery fire the going was hard. German skirmishers and delaying parties fought stubbornly, fell back slowly. Lovat's men pushed on in a continual process of dashing forward, dropping in their tracks, firing a few rounds, snatching up pack and gun and dashing forward again...
...waste basket with the themes and the programs. No corn; well maybe a little, wistful melancholy, all very civilized, all very Chekhovian, "This is the way the world ends. . ." He'd have another drink or two, a few reminiscences, but under control, and then out into the hot sunlight, pack his books and pull...
Leader of the Wolf-Pack for this week: Herschel "Measles" Futral. (Or didn't you see him trying to steal Tom Gaines' girl at chow Thursday...