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Then, although he speaks fluent Japanese, Mashbir merely gestured with his thumb for Kawabe to move on toward towering, German-born Major General Charles A. Willoughby. Kawabe and Willoughby saluted like automatons, and the American brusquely led the Japs to waiting staff cars...
...Thumb Error. Near Placerville. Calif.. escaped Convict Eric Launblad took to the highway, finally thumbed a ride, was promptly nabbed by the driver: the prison warden...
...weeks Doyle could not turn in bed. First, he concentrated on trying to move his fingers. After many days he managed to move his right thumb, then the index finger, then the whole hand. When he tried to bend his elbow, he found that he had lost coordination: instead of tightening one muscle and relaxing its opposite, he tightened both. One day, in answer to a nurse's question, he tried to shrug his shoulders, was startled because only one shoulder shrugged. But he learned to shrug both shoulders, to bend his arm, and (after practicing daily...
Hard to Predict. Seldom had an election result been so hard to predict by rule-of-thumb. Some ten million electors would vote for the first time in their lives. The Tories, after their 1935 landslide (387 seats out of 615) were bound to lose some ground, but Win-with-Winnie was a massive counterbalance to the postwar leftward swing. War-worn Britons wanted social reforms and meant to have them. Would they go part of the way to socialization with the Conservatives, or most of the way with Labor...
...Island & Thumb. One force-including mechanized Commandos-took Labuan Island, key to the harbor, from a Japanese garrison of 500. With it came Victoria town, two airfields, 4,000 Japanese bombs, rubber and coconut plantations. Stronger groups pounced on the thumb of land that poked up into the bay from the mainland -and on its satellite, Muara Island. They went in standing up and quickly took the hamlet of Brooketon, where tun-bellied Major General George Frederick Wootten, 250-lb. division commander, set up headquarters. Then they moved into Brunei town-a dismal conglomeration of dilapidated native shacks built...