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...Rump Session. In Normandy, and later in Holland, Taylor proved himself to be a master tactician, maneuvered his division with consistent versatility to keep open roads and harass the enemy. He insisted on peak performance from his staff, unceremoniously sacked one senior colonel for failing to act boldly. A stickler for discipline, Taylor once gave a lieutenant a medal for a dangerous patrol and simultaneously fined him $50 for not being clean-shaven. Taylor was harder on himself than anyone, making personal reconnaissances by Jeep, risking injury unnecessarily by sitting stubbornly at a staff table while shells fell...
Taylor eventually was wounded in the rump by a mortar fragment while making a tour of a forward area against the angry advice of a sergeant, who warned of the alert enemy. When Taylor was hit, the sergeant stormed up to his rescue with an attitude that was anything but solicitous: "Goddammit. General, now do you believe me?" Taylor spent ten days in the hospital, but made his staff keep his name off the wounded list for fear he would lose his command...
...Your Honor," said Eichmann, submissive again. "But I must point out I have a feeling I am being roasted until the rump steak is well done...
...director. "To imagine that they don't have certain desires would be ridiculous. So we try to show, without being obscene about it, how they satisfy those desires." First the man, dressed in a skintight, flesh-colored costume, experimentally maneuvered the woman, similarly sheathed, into various positions-rump to rump, shoulder to shoulder-until at last she twined her body around his left leg and sinuously slid up to a standing embrace. He was Adam, of course, and she was Eve - -in a highly successful new San Francisco ballet titled Original...
...exile in Cambodia by the army in December. But the King detests Prince Souvanna, who is his distant cousin. Fortnight ago, a Russian Ilyushin 14 slipped into the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh bearing a rebel delegation that tried to talk Souvanna into returning to Laos to head up a rump government in the rebel-held sector. Souvanna cautiously refused to budge...