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...north, in a long thin funnel, white to greasy green in color, the storm poured through, with thunderous roar and a long trail of smoke like an express train. It hit Joetown, then Oakdale, then swept Pleasant Hill. Fifteen of the 25 houses toppled as if they had been stepped on. Stoves, mattresses and tables poured down onto Route 19. Porches and roofs, caught in the swirl, splashed in the debris of Pleasant Hill, and then the tornado ground on through West Virginia...
...days earlier batteries of 8-inch guns, massed thickly on the narrow Karelian corridor into Finland, had opened fire. From the Gulf of Finland came the roar of supporting guns of the Red Baltic Fleet. The Red air force plowed the enemy defenses. At the end of three hours, Soviet infantry and tanks plunged forward into the gaps...
...streamers going out in a diagonal slant (loud crash of ack-ack) right over our head. . . . Flares are coming down now. You can hear the machine gunning. . . . Here's heavy ack-ack now [loud firing and muffled shouts of crew']. . . . Here we go again! Another plane has come over (roar of motors). . . . The cruiser right alongside us is pouring it up (sound of ack-ack). . . . Something burning is falling down through the sky and circling down. It may be a hit plane (machine-gun fire). Here we go. They got one! They got one! . . . (Gun crew voices: "We made...
...York Timesman. Milton Bracker, who visited the hospital last week, noticed that the patients remain calm, even when planes roar overhead. Veterinarians say they can tell that a mule is in pain only by the expression in his eyes or by a quivering muscle. Only the "shellshocked" animals make any noise. A wounded animal first gets an antitetanus shot in the neck. Then metal fragments are removed and wounds dressed under anesthesia on a ten-by-ten-foot operating table covered with rubber. As in the U.S., there is a feed shortage. Instead of hay, the animal patients get. along...
...British took this latest war difficulty calmly, as they had taken many a worse one. With patient approval they noted other signs, noted that the roar of heavy bombers sailing south over London had never sounded louder, that the convoys of army trucks rumbling through city streets and village lanes were growing longer, that there were fewer soldiers on furlough, more in battle dress...