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From his eyes there shone the bitterness brewed by the repeated jailings of himself and his family, the bruises left in his heart by the clubbings he and his aged mother suffered. He was beaten in a Lucknow demonstration against the Simon Commission in 1928. During a National Week demonstration in 1932 his mother was beaten and left unconscious on the side of the road near her home in Allahabad. She was dead now, and so were his father and his wife Kamala, all helped along to funeral pyres on the banks of the Ganges by their work in India...
Keith, third marshal of the Senior Class, is the former president of the Council, and ex-Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, while Heiden, recently elected to the Permanent Class Committee, shone as a blocking back on the football team last fall...
...stubborn Russian troops in the fortress of Sevastopol, a convoy ran in supplies across the Black Sea. Meanwhile, in rear areas, tank engines were tuned, fuel moved forward, every day the sun shone brighter. And every day Russians and Germans, like swimmers fighting in a millrace, were swept closer to the battle that may decide the fate of Europe...
...machine gunners. The column had to stop; the fire was too hot. The officers decided to let the tanks try to break through. Wrote Mundy: "Racing toward us out of the sun were great swarms of planes, and as they roared overhead the crimson orbs on the wings shone down on us. . . . I counted 40 bombers, but fighters weaving in and out and chasing one another in jubilant sweeps around us were too difficult to count...
...same faith shone in the closing speech of Daladier...