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Sometimes the men had traveled all night, and arrived in our area dead-tired, and once the lorries, jeeps, tanks, etc. were parked in the spaces allotted, they fell asleep, and slept like logs on the tops of lorries, on the pavement, on ammunition. Some slept on the bonnets of lorries, others inside with their feet poking out -sometimes without boots on. Those who stayed a few days made themselves hammocks and slung them between the buffers of vehicles, or erected microscopic tents and crawled inside. If they were parked outside a house with a lawn, they slept...
...used to start walking on a pavement, step over and round sleeping men, and then use the road, dodge to avoid a speeding jeep, hop behind a lorry to get away from fast baseball players, be compelled to walk on the road again, only to jump clear of a rash driver, and so on down the road between a double line of huge lorries, where men played cards sitting on petrol tins, shaved with a mere drop of water, using the small windscreen mirror to see how they were progressing, and washed clothes in about one pint of water...
Outdoor Housekeeping. We saw washing on little lines strung up anywhere, on a wire fence, between two bumpers, two branches, across the pavement. During the hot days they wore trunks of the briefest style, looked very healthy and brown, and happy too. They really behaved like boys, playing ball, wrestling, and all sorts of queer games, and how they loved harmonicas, banjos and guitars...
...flame. The Times's 46-year-old assistant general manager, Harry Chandler, who happened to be on the street outside, took brisk, efficient charge of the disaster. But when it was over, 20 mangled Times employes had died in the fire or leaped to their deaths on the pavement...
...George Rodger of LIFE and I were moving closer toward the harbor when the whole area lighted to a white blinding intensity," Lang cabled. "Then a great weight hit me and I found myself flat on the pavement. I saw a huge rolling mass of flame a thousand feet in the air: a tanker had blown up 300 yards from us. Tied up just before us was another tanker; it could blow up any moment. 'Let's get out of here!' I shouted, and we climbed to the top of a nearby building and looked over...