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...game fish are the topmost rung of a long fish-eat-fish biological ladder. At the bottom are one-celled organisms-bacteria, algae, protozoa-which form the prey of slightly larger creatures (tiny crustaceans). These get eaten by the next size creatures-and so on up the line...
Bright fire gushed from the 18-ft. wound in the structure's side, reached for the topmost observation tower on the 102nd floor. Gasoline fumes popped in flash explosions four and five floors below. Thick, acrid smoke billowed above & below, soon filled the upper floors...
Above them rode farther-roving P47 missions to dive-bomb and strafe every moving truck, self-propelled gun or railroad train fof many miles beyond, while higher still was the steady rumble of the great silver Fortresses in the topmost sky, purring distantly on to knock out the rearmost reinforcement areas, supply points and marshaling yards...
...deputy, Eisenhower gave him one of airborne's best: suave Lieut. General Frederick A. M. Browning, Britain's topmost airborne man, small-arms expert and husband of Novelist Daphne (Rebecca) du Maurier. What the airborne army's assignment would be was still something the Germans would like to know...
...Chinese documentary film team, a driver, a mechanic and three gendarmes to guard us on the desert. Coming back we had to get a tenth into the car for the driver bought a Turki girl in Kashgar for $200 (rather pretty though unwashed) and perched her high on the topmost mound of baggage...