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...fighting ability of the U.S. Marines is never questioned. But sometimes soldiers and sailors are irked by the signs of conscious superiority inherent in every Marine. In Gismo (meaning "gadget"), a publication for all servicemen in the South Pacific, this pent-up irritation was let out in doggerel "believed to be by a sailor...
...mean that their parents would shortly be wallowing in bobby pins, pot scourers and can openers. WPB flatly refused to relax metal restrictions on 646 other civilian items, despite the ample steel supply. A few weeks ago WPB's Office of Civilian Requirements was talking hopefully of supplying pent-up demands for many a much-missed article of everyday life. It still plans soon to increase the manufacture of alarm clocks, let a score of other minor items dribble out. But for the most part, OCR has now decided to keep the lid on tight until it becomes certain...
Last week, 324 years after the coming of the first Negroes in Virginia,† the strings of U.S. racial tension were taut and throbbing across the land. In jam-packed Detroit, where for 24 hours riot had raged (TIME, June 28), pent-up ill feeling between whites and Negroes was a silence more ominous than sound...
Last week Parisians wildly applauded this scene in a performance of Puccini's opera La Tosca. They found in it an emotional release from their own pent-up bitterness and frustration under police tyranny. And never, they said, had the role been acted so realistically. It never had. The curtain did not rise again. Neither did the Baron. Petit Parisien reported that in the excitement of the performance the villain had actually been stabbed...
...ahead. Now the bombardiers pushed their buttons, and now the big, dark mines, each weighing 1,500 pounds, tumbled from the planes. Some landed with a splash in the water; some hit the dams fair & square. When the roar of their explosions had subsided, the sustained, deeper roar of pent-up waters, suddenly released, struck terror into the hearts of those below...