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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never got up. Before he could fire, Conley had grabbed Wade's shotgun, blazed away at Martin with both barrels. Martin fell forward. Conley's partner, Loftin, who had already disarmed the guards at his end of the line, fired another slug into the prone body. Martin rolled over, dead. Conley looked around, saw another guard drawing a bead on him. He raised his shotgun, snapped both empty barrels, just as the guard was overpowered and disarmed by the convicts...
...according to battlefield evidence, 1940, French Army leadership, canopied by a great weight of professional autocracy, was smothered by routine thought, opposition to change. The French Army's ranks were filled by democrats who did not like to think of war until they had to, were prone to dodge conscription, soldier through their training period...
...minutes against what was practically a dead weight without the slightest chance to relax a muscle was a severe test of endurance. After a contest, some men could not at once sit up, some collapsed. I remember one who fell in a dead faint. . . . Pulling from cleats in a prone position put such strain on the heart that many athletes were permanently injured and so the game was outlawed in the early...
...board feels not only that it is bad taste to print statistics having to do with such personal matters," Donnell said, "but that these figures are not of permanent value. First of all, they may not be accurate since they are questions which we believe many people may be prone to answer in jest. Secondly, these statistics are of temporary interest, and may not be regarded by members of our class as figures which they will care to refer to over the years in a class book...
...near military centres or in war industries. Britain's huge new spy hunt involves checking up on domestic servants, railroad, shipyard and hospital employes; on aliens who have started nightclubs in London's West End, where service men on leave, their tongues loosened on "bottle parties," are prone to speak too freely. As an example to tighten British tongues and defeat the spy system from that end, a court-martial in London last week deprived an unnamed naval officer of his commission for "careless talk...