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...life. He did not deny any of the state's major charges, but he claimed to have saved Norway from becoming a battlefield. He even boasted of his sentimental friendship with Hitler. With evangelical fervor he called himself a prophet and a patriot. His last feeble shout: "If my activity has been treason, then in God's name I hope that for the sake of Norway many of her sons will become the same kind of traitor...
...Better Time." Quick was the union to shout for a retraction from Howe. They said he had also cried: "Let the workers go on strike. What the hell do I care? . . . There is no better time to strike. . . . Workers have been nursed through the war. They may as well realize that the war is over. I don't give a damn if they do have to take jobs at 25? an hour less. . . . The war is through, the plant is through and your union...
...such uneasy occasion Eichelberger's aide, Major Clyde Schuck, whispered from his foxhole, "General, are you all right?" Getting no answer, he repeated the question in an anxious shout. From Eichelberger's hideout near by came the rumble of the General's voice: "Clyde, my boy, I appreciate your interest, but when the little bastards are infiltrating, I'd just as soon you called...
...only semi-articulate, whether they were soldiers or scientists, or great statesmen, or the simplest of men. But in the dark depths of their minds and hearts, huge forms moved and silently arrayed themselves: Titans, arranging out of the chaos an age in which victory was already only the shout of a child in the street...
...practice radar is not that simple. A conventional transmitter, sending continuous radar waves, would not do, for the same reason that a man roaring incessantly at a cliff would get back only a confusing noise. To get a clear, time-able echo, he must utter a short, sharp shout. That is exactly what radar does. It sends staccato "pulses" of electric energy, each less than a millionth of a second in length, at a rate of about 1,000 a second. Each pulse has time to make a round trip (about a thousandth of a second for a target...