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...hold Kweilin or not. They are going to fight and thousands of them are going to die along the river, at barricades, in streets. Though Chinese will die, this is our campaign and in equal proportion our defeat. Here in this campaign the Japanese have combined a whole sheaf of objectives - a supply route safe from submarines; destruction of China's best troops; a political blow at Chungking which will rock the regime to its foundations. But these were secondary considerations. What they wanted most of all was to get us: to get the nest of planes that...
...course there was that Hurricane of last week. Being accustom to Texans, such wind as there was was anticlimactic. At the highest point of the storm, with the wind whistling by Baker, and the Ivy being ripped from the walls, Dave Blumberg leaned out his porthole and waved a sheaf of pay records in a successful attempt to raise the velocity of the wind. The following morning he collected his "pot" for having guessed the highest velocity attained...
...With a sheaf of Metropolitan names and half the critics in town on their payroll, his rivals looked as if they might take the box office out from under the remarkable British Mozartian. Worried, British AmBassador Charles Bateman thought Sir Thomas ought to leave Mexico in a huff...
Marshal in command of the German Armies in Italy) with a sheaf of amazing blueprints and photographs. They comprised a design for the long-distance mili tary rocket he had predicted. U.S. Army ordnance officers had brushed aside robot-bomb designs by such established invent ors as Hammond, Charles F. Kettering, the late Lawrence B. Sperry. But Kessel ring and Hermann Göring gave Oberth a big staff of technicians and the run of German laboratories...
Winston Churchill pummeled his luncheon guest with questions about U.S. opinion. The answers perplexed him. Puzzled but polite, he carried on to the end, extended a limp hand to his departing guest. Back at his desk, he thumbed through a sheaf of favorite reading-brilliant, witty reports from Washington on U.S. reaction to world events. Long and frowningly he gazed at the signatures, wondered if he had been the victim of a practical joker. Orders were barked, secretaries investigated, Churchill was enlightened. The "I. Berlin" on the reports was Isaiah Berlin, economist, not Irving Berlin, guest...