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Shamrock was a pleasure boat which, like scores of the other craft, had not been designed for the Dunkirk job (the armada even included three Thames flak ships). "I was [soon] numb to [danger]," says Shamrock Skipper Barrell. "It was hot bravery but just a will to snatch those boys." Barrell squeezed his way into the beaches among upturned boats and floating torpedoes. "Soldiers in the water trying to be sailors for the first time . . . paddled their collapsible little boats out to me with the butts of their rifles, and many shouted that they were sinking, we could not help...
...crowds kept surging through Prague. They were dazed. The loudspeaker system installed by the Germans blared martial airs and Communist communiqués from every streetcorner. A snatch of music or a few glibly triumphant phrases would suddenly hit people as reminders of the thing that had just happened, so quickly that they still could not grasp it. Men wept convulsively and uncontrollably...
...Marjorie Chamberlain of Purley, near London, had a nanny goat named Gertie and two kids named Snitch and Snatch. She also had a one-eyed, champion egg-laying duck named Belinda, and a Derby racing car. All these chattels needed housing...
Replied Minister Key: "If the application had asked for a home for Snitch and Snatch ... I could have considered it, but when the application includes a home for Belinda the one-eyed duck, as well as the provision of a garage ... I think it is another matter...
...third floor, Boarder Alice Conners smelled smoke, woke as many as she could. One aged man and two aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...