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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awful screams . . . rose wildly . . . the great leaves slowly rose and stiffly . . . closed about the dead and hampered victim with the silent force of a hydraulic press. . . . The retracted leaves of the great tree kept their upright position during ten days, then when I came one morning they were prone again . . . and nothing [was left] but a white skull at the foot of the tree...
...give Ranger training to every young officer and noncom, send him to his new division with plenty to teach. Like every other ranker charged with training, he has watched combat reports, talked to returning soldiers. Chief lesson from these sources is that even crack outfits are jittery, indecisive and prone to suffer high casualties in their first meetings with the enemy. By making home-training courses tougher, noisier and more dangerous, the Army is confident lives can be saved, battles won more quickly...
Fradd, in his conditioning work, stressed exercises which involved the large trunk muscles--bending and streching in the prone, supine, and sitting positions...
...waiting on the table, Vag wondered if the Beacon Street dowager next to him cared whose life was saved with her blood. Funny if it got to some bleeding Muscovite. Curiosity forced him to look down the row of tables at the prone women. He winced. Why were they all clenching their fists? Pain? But they told me . . . Vag looked up into the soft face in the hard white uniform. It surprised him when he saw a black pipe stuck in the crook of his arm and a slow red flow into the bottle. "Open and close your fist...
...last spring to paint a mural of the burning of Richmond (1865) for the Saunders Station Post Office, Binford submitted a preliminary sketch nicely calculated to lose him the job. His rough drawing showed a street scene jammed with looters, a mother trying to escape with her baby over prone bodies, a half-naked woman who has torn off her blouse to prevent herself from being scorched, a horseman riding roughshod over...