Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know her very well: once they called to her by loudspeaker over the battlefield, offering her cake and chocolate to "come over to us." Asked last week how she felt when she picked off her first Nazi, she replied: "How can a human being feel when killing a poisonous snake?" Her score is actually 311. She explained that the first two were not Germans, but Rumanians, and only "trial shots" to qualify her as a sniper...
Brainard Cheney follows his Lightwood (TiME, Oct. 30, 1939) with a book which puts him high among the strictly regional novelists-a book so good (when it is) that its weaknesses are doubly deplorable. Through the career of Hero Rutliff ("Snake") Sutton, Cheney tells the history of raftsmanship along Georgia's Oconee and Altamaha Rivers, and describes the business of lumbering in Darien, on the Georgia coast, toward the end of the last century...
...Snake Sutton is a hard-muscled, sensitive, moral dimwit who climbs, tooth & nail, from social dereliction (a childhood among swamp Negroes) to the throat-cutting peak of local business and society (a timber firm of his own, a blueblood marriage). Then he goes back again. On the way up, he has an affair with a bordello keeper (part real, part Hollywood) and a fascinating raftsman's apprenticeship to a gigantic veteran of the rivers. He is the center, also, of some superb fights, crooked and raw deals, and river adventures...
...pilot's seat and came out in the glassed bombardier's compartment. Butch Morgan sat in the very nose of the ship, peering down his bombsight. I sat in the seat directly behind him with my knees in his back, peering down below and watching the yellow snake of the Yangtze drawing closer. Over to the right high up on a mountain, appeared the black spot of Kuling, formerly a summer resort of foreigners. Here it was that on July 19, 1937, Chiang Kai-shek made his historic speech declaring China would fight. Beyond on the northern bank...
...Antonio's WOAI offered several prizes, one for the best collector's letter. The winning letter came from twelve-year-old William Wheat of Utopia. While fishing for old tires, Utopia's Willie was bitten by a copperhead snake. He wrote: "We didn't make much on the rubber [247 lb.] after having to pay the hospital and the doctor but anyway we did help lick the Japs and Germans...