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...critical U.S. category. In actual numbers, the U.S. probably has the edge in destroyers and is somewhere near even in cruiser strength. But the Atlantic fleet, stripped and stripped though it has been, still requires an important proportion of the available total. The long convoy lines of the Pacific suck up more. Result: the Navy is hard put to find enough cruisers and destroyers for task-force duty, screening carriers and battleships, raiding enemy concentrations. That is one reason why the loss of the Astoria, Vincennes and Quincy was serious, why the U.S. showed to no better advantage...
...louse feeds on human blood and abhors soap. But where there is no cleansing disturbance the louse flourishes&151;the female easily produces over 100 mature offspring in two months. Typhus epidemics begin when lice suck up typhus germs with the blood of infected human beings, carry the germs to others and infect them. The lice themselves eventually die of the disease they carry&151;after they have spread it among...
...comforting view of these attacks was that Japanese units were making an ineffectual nuisance of themselves. But it was more likely, in view of hardheaded operations to date, that beyond the damage they might cause the chief aim of the Japanese commanders was to create diversions, to try to suck strong units of the U.S. Fleet away from more worthwhile objectives...
...Eastern Shore, is as plain as an old scow. Yachtsmen have been known to row up to the dock in their underwear, wander into the best pub in town wearing pajama pants and a battered silk hat. Ashore, some 5,000 folks loll around in shirt sleeves, suck Popsicles, guzzle beer, chase small fry who get lost in the crowd...
Then Leader Pechanatz gravely handed Mrs. Mitchell a phial of poison, showed her how to sew it in the collar of her tunic so that she could suck it out, even though her hands were manacled. He told her to practice killing with a knife, by plunging and twisting it in a sack of flour. These amenities attended to, Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when...