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...starting Dec. 21. The railroad men shuddered. They anticipated the greatest mail load on record, plus a December holiday civilian load of over two billion passenger-miles, and they did not want 800 million soldier-miles dumped on top of that all at once. They persuaded the QMC to stagger its leaves: men who live near camp can leave Dec. 26, but men living a great distance away get 16 days, and the bulk of this movement will start Dec. 13, before the civilian peak. On that night, solid trainloads of troops will start to highball through the railroad gateways...
With star stagger-back Peter "Ham and" Dammann out with severe internal injures, the undefeated CRIME outfit will meet at Art Hopkins' Club at 3 o'clock to play spin the bottle for the honor of taking over...
...were being shelled throughout our advance and had already been taken when the colonel and C Company moved up. A Company is placed in reserve and we are told to march back to our transport, which is moving up along the road to meet us. We literally stagger along the road. One of my blokes falls, all he can say is, "Water! Water!" and then he passes out and is picked up by ambulance and is taken back. We reach the transport and collapse beneath the trucks which provide the only shade...
...night after Bigger has driven the girl home from a party, he helps her stagger to her room. She drunkenly insists on his staying there a while. The girl's blind mother enters and, in desperately trying to prevent the girl from giving his presence away, Bigger accidentally smothers her to death. A reporter later discovers that Bigger has burned the girl's body in the furnace, and the Negro is captured in an empty house. A Darrowesque lawyer (Ray Collins) makes a plea for Bigger's life on the ground that racial oppression must inevitably lead...
...stuff Ivey likes to hear: "How does horse racing get away with it? ... A horse comes in . . . among the also-rans in one race and in the very next he finishes so far ahead that he's through taking his shower before the place pony can even stagger home. Or vice versa. At least vice...