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...when her brother brought him home from Fort Monmouth; they decided to get married when he was transferred to communications school at Harvard. In his 30 months' absence, Mrs. Phelp's conception of her tall (6 ft. 3½ in.) and handsome husband grew. The sweater she was knitting grew in proportion. When she got the picture of him, she saw what she had done: the sweater came halfway to his knees...
...little girl: 'How is she? Has she stopped wetting the bed? Does she talk about me?' I have to fill my letters with fake stories about her, for when I come home from the bank I find that if she wants to play outside without her sweater on, or if she wants candy, Herb's parents let her. I know Herb will notice the difference...
...office in the Department of the Interior, stoop-shouldered, intense little John Collier shuffled through a neat stack of papers, stopped occasionally to stare at a corncob pipe in an empty water glass on his desk. In his baggy old long-sleeved green sweater, he looked like a country storekeeper closing out the week's accounts. Actually, he was closing out twelve years with the Government...
...effects. One group we saw trying to cross the river at Marcourt were slipping and sliding down the broken wooden girders of the dynamited bridges into the icy water and wading across. In this family there was a girl of ten crying bitterly. She wore a thin red cotton sweater with a thin cotton dress underneath and the Belgian approximation of bobby socks in scuffed shoes. Her mother, wearying under a heavy bundle, spoke sullenly and bitterly when we asked what was wrong. 'Elle a froid. C'est tout. Elle a froid.' ('She's cold...
...late at night. In the austere conference room of the British military headquarters in Athens stood four dejected Greeks. Three were dressed in ragged civilian clothes. The fourth wore the dirt-stained uniform of the guerrilla forces (which included a turtleneck sweater). All were haggard and unshaven. They were the delegates of the ELAS Central Committee. No one spoke...