Word: superhumans
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...conceals his compass, steers not for Bermuda but for a German supply ship. And while everyone sleeps, he pushes overboard the man who catches him drinking from a concealed bottle of water. His apparently superhuman strength comes from this water and from energy tablets. In a burst of horror and rage his boatmates force him overboard, beat him under water. Rittenhouse delivers the coup de gráce-with the shoe from the amputated foot of the man the German saved...
...force which is allowed to run freely through the characters in the play, tying them in inextricable knots as his "motiveless malignity" see fit. But Othello must stand as an object great enough for his fall to shock the audience. That is almost calling for the superhuman. And it's debatable whether Robeson is quite such a superman...
...midst of Wagnerian gloom, Hitler spoke his piece, and it was somber. Appealing for German Red Cross funds, the Führer said that the German Eastern Front armies had overcome a winter crisis "that would have broken every other armed force in the world." He spoke of "superhuman hardships'' and the need for sacrifices so that Germany might be "spared the horror...
...China and in their daily demands as warming as the building of a home. Coercion cannot order the materials; bombast cannot inspire the efforts; the fear of death cannot release the imagination's shortcuts or bring about the emotions' quick ability to generate for a time their superhuman strength...
...Rolling Cars. That the crisis was not worse was due almost entirely to the railroads, which in the last months had performed superhuman tasks. All through the fall and winter the men in the cabs of locomotives, in the lonely switchmen's shacks, in the dispatchers' offices had labored and sweated with the job of keeping the long lines of tank cars rolling. They had rolled so well that rail deliveries to the East were boosted almost 50,000 barrels a day. Even then, deliveries were some 200,000 barrels a day below needs...