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...week, on D-day plus 17 on the invasion calendar, it was reopened with a bang. In Moscow 60 salutes from 224 of Moscow's victory guns thundered the news-20 salutes for each of Joseph Stalin's three orders of the day. Never before had the taciturn man from Georgia issued so many victory proclamations in 24 hours...
...then even the regimented Japs were beginning to ask when their fleet would come out and fight. For the nonce, plump, taciturn Shimada said nothing; Tokyo's radio fantasists explained to the homeland and to Greater East Asia that the thing to do was to wait and see: some time the U.S. fleet would find itself far from home. Then the Jap fleet would strike the crushing blow...
...Eakins scientific, dull, dogged, could scarcely fail to warm to the depth and humaneness of his perceptions; his heads, in particular, had an inward life, like well-banked fires. People who had once thought of him as an uninteresting, restricted colorist could not fail to see that in his taciturn, tender palette range he was as superb a colorist as Brahms was in music. Even those who spoke, with some justice, of Eakins' lack of interest in design, could scarcely fail to note the monumentally simple success of his portraits, the linked flow of limbs and bodies in The Swimming...
...Added taciturn Private Max G. Peterson, former rigger of Marlinton, W.Va.: "The officer commanding my tank got a wound in his head, bandaged it himself and kept going...
Just before dark, the sleek, fast B-26 Marauder circled her English air base and slipped in to a smooth landing. Technical Sergeant William L. Stuart, a taciturn, red-haired Texan, heaved an eloquent sigh, rubbed his grease-stained hands together, got out his tools and prepared to go to work...