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...results of the Jap fanaticism stagger the imagination. The very violence of the scene is incomprehensible to the Western mind. Here groups of men had met their self-imposed obligation, to die rather than accept capture, by blowing them selves to bits. I saw one Jap sitting impaled on a bayonet which was stuck through his back, evidently by a friend. All the other suicides had chosen the grenade. Most of them simply held grenades against their stomachs or chests. The explosive charge blasted away their vital organs. Probably one in four held a grenade against his head. There were...
Motorists were hardest hit in Washington, D.C., where filling-station operators hung up "no gas" signs and went home. (Buses to Mt. Vernon were discontinued.) The Richmond Chamber of Commerce persuaded business offices to stagger working hours to ease peak loads on public conveyances. Philadelphia's OPA inspectors, quizzing 1,000 suspected pleasure drivers, found a surprising number of gas users on their way to (or just returning from) their grandmothers' funerals. Manhattan Sunday bus service was slashed deep: Fifth Avenue was empty...
...Japs use a vast aerial stagger system to guard their empire and train air crews for combat. Freshman flyers go to central China to bomb relatively undefended towns. Then they move by easy stages to Formosa for additional training. In the Canton-Hong Kong area, they next bomb southern China and come up against Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. The survivors proceed to Thailand and Burma, where they still tangle with the Fourteenth and also with R.A.F. and U.S. airmen based in India. Last stop for those still alive is the Southwest Pacific, where the Japs concentrate their best...
Under the constant pounding, the Del Commune began to stagger. Her joints creaked. With every blow her decks seemed to buckle. She sprang a leak under the stern transom. Given time, she seemed bound to shake herself to pieces. "You just cain't go kickin' this river around this way," murmured one of Captain Joe's copilots. "You just cain...
Ezio was playing Boris for the 50th time. For him, every groan and stagger of Modest Moussorgsky's doom-shadowed hero was an old story. But Pinza as usual sang and acted every line with half-crazed intensity, made the part so live that his audience could almost smell the sweat of medieval Moscow. Next day critics tried hard to find a new way of saying that Ezio Pinza is the world's greatest operatic basso, the greatest singing actor of his generation...