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...since the blitz had London taken so savage a beating. At dawn, at dusk, in fog, sunlight and darkness the robombs roared across the Channel, streaked through ack-ack and balloon cable defenses, pounded more of the city into debris...
Country Visitors. By far the most damaging insect, and most at home in modern civilization, is the clothes moth. It has been known to eat house insulation as well as clothes, rugs, etc. (it is destructive in the larval stage only). Best weapons against the moth are sunlight, moth balls or flakes, paradichlorobenzene. Chemists have recently developed effective new methods for permanent mothproofing of wool - for postwar...
...July 10 the U.S. fleet was softening up Guam for the invasion that was soon to come. But not all men on all ships were intent on the bombardment. On one warship, close in toward shore, sailormen had picked up the flashing of sunlight from a mirror. They watched, fascinated. What they were seeing was the end of one of the most extraordinary personal experiences...
...Caen front the German soldier's happiest hours were when drenching rain falls, "the clay clings to our boots, greatcoats become soaked and heavy, and foxhole trenches fill with water. But when the storm passes and the sun emerges, the soldier's greeting to the sunlight, hissed through clenched teeth, is unprintable. For with the sun also return the swarms of enemy fighters and fighter-bombers...
...waste basket with the themes and the programs. No corn; well maybe a little, wistful melancholy, all very civilized, all very Chekhovian, "This is the way the world ends. . ." He'd have another drink or two, a few reminiscences, but under control, and then out into the hot sunlight, pack his books and pull...