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...with his wife. Pierre entered their room, gripping his shotgun. Marie slipped out of bed. Pierre fired. The first shot fractured Jean's shoulder. "You're crazy!" Jean shouted, but a second shot silenced him forever. Next day, Pierre bicycled to the local barber shop, got a shave and a haircut, then went to the police station and reported calmly that his daughter had just killed her husband. The gendarmes, when they got to the Talabard farm, handed Marie the shotgun and asked her to fire it. She did not even know how to hold it. Wearily, Louise...
...Dawdled all the way back from bridge, talked to sunbathers, caught crabs, trailed one foot in the water--all to make sure that I cinched the bottom rung. I figure no one can shave 30 minutes any closer than that...
...white as well as Negro troops. Negro officers command white troops without any friction. The matter is no longer even discussed. Says Lieut. Colonel Robert W. Wilson of Washington, D.C., a G-1 officer, and a Negro: "I think about the color problem about once a day: when I shave in the morning...
...Exactly. I was going along quite smoothly, just beginning to shave around the ears, when this guy started to sit up in the chair. 'What is the matter?' I said to him. 'Why are you irritated?' So he says to me, 'Ruby, he says, 'I have listened to you comment on the national scene for a number of years now, and during that time I have drunk deeply of your wisdom. Your analysis of Mr. Truman's bad points was a delight to my ears. But things are different now, Ruby, much different. We no longer have a pianist...
...Shower & Shave. Far more typical is the case of George, a 22-year-old private first class from New England. He had been in the line for six months and was beginning to suffer from shaking spells...