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...nearest pupil and by gesture and innuendo, if not by edict, conveyed to the class the idea that Johnny was ostracized. This technique worked beautifully. Johnny too got the idea. They were against him. Ergo, he was against them. So he stabbed the leader of the class in the spine. ... A simple technique is to call the child a name. Willie, a 'sensitive' child, used to smoke during recess. Teacher . . . came up with this interesting bit of logic: Smoking is against the rules; hence the smoker is against the rules; hence he is antisocial, antigovernment, anti-American...
...exceptionally well-chosen omnibus of short spine-tinglers, with an urbane and knowledgeable introductory essay...
...youngest, most talkative, most engaging U.S. Army major that the good people of northeast Mississippi had ever seen. Above his officer's pinks and forest-green shirt he wore the most dazzling decorations (the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart). He had lived through the most spine-tingling experiences imaginable, on all possible battlefronts (strafing Nazi tanks in North Africa, being rescued by the French underground after a crash landing in occupied Europe, shooting it out with Jap Zeros over the South Pacific). When red-haired young Holdeman spoke at war-bond rallies in Booneville, Tupelo, Okolona...
Sample of the Tangle. Looking forward from a Fifth Army regimental O.P. (observation post), the men could see their problem ahead-mountain ridges converging to a bottleneck, and in the bottleneck two obstructions, a bare rocky spine and a round wooded knoll. These hills squeezed Highway No. 6 into a horseshoe before it could straighten out on its way to Cassino and Rome, 90 miles away. Infantrymen named the hills "Old Baldy" and "The Fat One," and got ready to take them...
...bruising fight against terrain as well as pillboxes, snipers' nests, mined roads, concealed mortars' and artillery. The Apennine spine of Italy scatters rough, irregular ribs in all directions. Rain-flooded rivers gouge the land. Perched on heights above the valley-bottom roads, the Germans could give ground slowly and at a stiff price. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army pried them from Mondragone, the western anchor of their line. General Bernard Montgomery's Eighth bit sharply toward Isernia, key to the enemy's center, and Vasto, his east coast anchor...