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Many Argentines are inclined to be contemptuous of the oppositionists who thunder at the Government from safety across the river in Montevideo. They admire Aguirre Cámara for remaining in Argentina. Last week the police had not caught him yet. When they questioned his mother, she drew herself up proudly. "Go ahead and look for him," she said. "You won't find him. I've put him in the hands of God, who knows he is fighting for the salvation of his country...
...Hansell Jr., had to sweat out the mission on the ground. He was not alone; ground crews had all preparations made for the homecoming and were out strolling uneasily around the runways hours before the big silvery planes were due back. But the returning airmen brought less blood-and-thunder narrative than an hour's mission in Europe might produce...
...doughboys in their miserable foxholes, the tankmen warming up their machines, heard the apocalyptic thunder. They said: This is it. The star-shouldered planners, their work done, sat back to wait. They said: Let's hope this...
...Normandy, General Bradley tightened the pressure-on two relatively small areas, probing for a weak spot. On a 15-mile sector-from behind Geilenkirchen to the Aachen-Dürenhills-the German sky throbbed to the thunder of more than 4,000 aircraft, the German earth shook under the bolts of 10,000 tons of bombs, the blows of 20 tons of shells a minute. How any German could stand up to battle after the opening blow was beyond the belief of those who watched...
...Calais, the thunder of bombardment died and white flags fluttered in a short truce. Beside a demolished bridge eight miles from the town's center the British general commanding the Canadian besiegers waited to confer with the Calais commander, a Colonel Schroeder...