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...picture of the task on the U.S.'s newest and hardest-won Pacific island came last week from TIME Correspondent Robert Martin: "Peleliu is a horrible place. The heat is stifling and rain falls intermittently -the muggy rain that brings no relief, only greater misery. The coral rocks soak up heat during the day and it is only slightly cooler at night. Marines are in the finest possible physical condition, but they wilted on Peleliu. By the fourth day there were as many casualties from heat prostration as from wounds...
...encompassing the Empress as well, and far from spoofing the imperial manner, tried to outdo it. When a courtier reminded her that "They also serve who only stand and wait," she replied "Quoting Milton's 'prome', I presume!" She had sponged up enough history to soak her play with wars, uprisings and palace intrigues. But the excitement was conveyed in dialogue that had the specific gravity of lead, and the results, when not merely sedative, were often crushing...
...absorbed just enough moisture to require 6? postage instead of 3?. There weren't anywhere near enough 6? stamps in the Islands, so most of the copies needed two hand stampings instead of one. And the boys who pasted the labels on the envelopes let the moisture soak through to the flaps, so 20,000 stamped and addressed envelopes stuck tight shut before the copies went...
...some time, certainly, many business thinkers agreed, the backed-up purchasing power would soak up whatever was offered. Thus reconversion could be pulled through. This dormant purchasing power would release an unprecedented flood of consumer durable goods-houses and household equipment, television sets and autos and private planes...
...moved forward into the congregation of Higgins boats, jostling and bumping, while destroyers fired arching red balls ashore. Then the red balls seemed to bounce back, and we realized with horror that the Japs were thoroughly awakened and were returning fire. The jungle remained inviolate, as though it could soak up all the fire we could pour...