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They were bow-heavy; in even moderate seas they corkscrewed like cooch dancers ; they sprang leaks along welds; pumps and auxiliaries broke down; hot water heater tubes burned out; stanchions and hooks cracked off; flight decks extended so far forward that heavy seas rolled up under them and in the case of at least one ship carried the forward end of the flight deck away. The Casablancas were an uncertain haven to returning planes, especially if the air was light and the ship was wallowing in a ground swell. Men nicknamed the carriers "Kaiser's Coffins...
...harlots had made so much money that they had moved into good homes in some of Honolulu's best residential districts. When Advertiser Cummings publicized this fact, some public indignation sprang from the mistaken belief that the places he listed were houses of prostitution rather than homes of prostitutes...
...Lindner told him to forget what he had said. Primed with leading questions, Lindner had little difficulty getting the same story from Harold at a later, conscious session. Eventually analyst and patient concluded that Harold's psychosis was rooted in Oedipean jealousy of his father, that his blinking sprang from his association of the theater's bright lights with the whole shocking experience. Lindner reports that the hypnoanalysis cured Harold's blinking...
...column practically singlehanded gives us pains in the pratt, because that kind of crap gives the folks at home the wrong kind of idea about what we are up against." In the South Pacific, as one cinema hero mowed down the enemy like Superman at harvest home, G.l.s sprang to their feet yelling: "Wait a minute buddy, I'll help yah!" Then they shot up the screen...
...first, a few young civilians suddenly sprang up, flaunted arm bands and weapons, and called themselves resistance chiefs. The French police soon suppressed them with the aid. of legitimate resistance-chiefs. Leaders and members of the real underground were completely orderly, completely cooperative. Normandy has had no purges, no killing of Frenchmen by Frenchmen...