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...would strip the Western seas of British and U.S. vessels-leaving the Germans momentarily free to roam and raid -while he concentrated an armada in the Pacific. "With this great armada, perhaps 300 miles wide, I would sweep down the seas towards Japan and I would blast every Japanese flag out of the path...
They still tell of a great bird, called Aepyornis by paleontologists, which used to roam the island until a few thousand years ago. Aepyornis was ten feet tall, could not fly, laid eggs bigger than footballs. The Malagasy still find an occasional Aepyornis egg and sell it for as much as five or ten head of cattle to the Frenchmen, who then sell it to a collector or museum for as much as five or ten thousand dollars...
Most comment was on the humorous side. Leverett's dining hall resounded with the familiar strains of "Oh give me a home where the side orders roam, Where the soups and the meats are galore . . ." But at the same House, members were signing a serious petition calling for "a popular referendum on a matter that so vitally concerns our well-being...
...ordnance. For the U.S., the British censor passed articles like that of William H. Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News and New York Post: "If it were not for the R.A.F. and the Home Guard, an invading German Army equipped with Panzer divisions and several divisions of infantry could roam England, spreading havoc for at least one week, and at the end of that time could still exist as a fighting unit...
Today he paints little else. On a hilly, wooded seven-acre farm about eight miles from Atlanta, he lives with his buxom wife, a family of wild turkeys, two Canada geese, three mallard ducks, a sparrow hawk, two pigeons and three quail. The turkeys roam all over the yard, crowd around him while he paints, begging for grapes which he throws them between brushstrokes. Armed with a .410 gun and a special hunting permit allowing him one pair of any Georgia species per year, he makes frequent trips to south Georgia to shoot and trap models for his pictures...