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...permission to travel the Lunghai railway from Paochi through Sian to the gap through which the Yellow River flowed and the railway ran. The Japanese, on the far side of the river, habitually shelled this gap by day. The station at the break, where we spent the evening, stank of urine, stank of shit, stank of bodies. All around us were acres of huddled peasants, bundles of flesh lying in the cold on the ground, waiting for the next train to take them east, to the rear area and food. Babies cried; but no one paid any attention, even...
...came out and gave names; he was subsequently hired by Hollywood's reigning young liberal Stanley Kramer. Now, his pictures and career faded, all he does is apologize and explain with a slight tremble. Trumbo's pictures were no better than Dmytryk's for the most part (his dialogue stank) but he had his integrity and his anger to clutch to, and it kept him a man to the end. Alvah Bessie never got another script job again--he stage managed the Hungry in San Francisco for $80.00 a week; still he had his anger. Albert Maltz speaks...
...river stank," Russell Long, one of the crews in the event said. "The water was brown and odious, there was 2 1/2 knot current and the wind gusted from 0 to 44 at one point...
...really stank it up on our Black Thursday," a hoarse Harvard swimming coach Ray Easick said yesterday. "[Dave] Brumwell missed a turn in the IM and didn't qualify, Hess Yntema went out real fast in the event which he hasn't swum all year [the 200 IM] and faded at the end, and [George] Keim swam only in the consolation finals in the 50 free...
...felt nauseated by their prophecy. Their articiality stank in her mind, with its proclamation of barren death. Never before had she felt less weighty. Her body was small, had always been small, but usually clumsy and uncomfortably present on her bones. Now she felt fluid, fading into the dying sunlight. She stared at her extremities. Her toes and fingers were slender stalks. Plastic and uprooted like her flowers. Fading thinly into invisibility. Her eyes traveled up her body. Her sturdy thighs, her entire stumpy self was a slender green stem, fading...