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...Devils Lake, N.D., a five-ton elephant named Vera died of an infected toe nail...
Then, as the new week began, Major General Curtis LeMay wound up and pitched the biggest Superfort strike yet. Nearly 600 planes dropped 4,000 tons of fire bombs on four new targets in Kyushu and the toe of Honshu. The Japs could begin counting off Kure, greatest naval base on the Inland Sea; Ube, coal and magnesium center; Shimonoseki, seaport; Kumamoto, military and industrial city...
...Tuck. In San Pedro, Calif., a dog snapped at Private Michael Zanick's gun and holster, hung on until the gun went off, blasting Zanick's toe. In Manhattan, Mrs. Marie Zollinger leaned over to tuck in the bedding, was shot in the chest by the rifle her husband kept under the mattress...
Britain and the Soviet Union, reshaping and building up their spheres of influence in eastern and western Europe, stood toe-to-toe in occupied Germany. Weakened France, nervously balancing its position in the west against the new power in the east, was using its claims to a share of Germany as a bargaining point with both Britain and Russia. The U.S., well into an unfamiliar game, had based its occupation plans (see below) on the assumption that Germany was to be solely an occupation problem. Now, before the occupation was well begun, that assumption was dead...
...help believing they had this sort of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake the man, this is to die young. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart. In the hot-fit of life, a tip-toe on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing, when, trailing with him clouds of glory, this happy-starred, full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual land...