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...their smartest move in their play for time by blasting the floodgates of the Schwammenauel dam. The Roer, usually only 75 feet wide and knee-deep, at some points was more than 1,000 feet of brown water spilled over forested flatlands. At others it was a raging, narrow torrent...
...Hakim had shot the Minister, Tsouri had stabbed his chauffeur to death. Then the prisoners began to expound the Stern credo of violence. They justified the assassination as an act of war against a foreign invader (Britain). Austere Mahmoud Mansour Bey, the presiding judge, tried vainly to halt the torrent of burning words. At last he ordered reporters not to record them. The prisoners, he ruled, could not use an Egyptian court as their political forum...
...first impact of the German offensive in the Ardennes had been stunning. Much more so was the size of the breakthrough, the continuing torrent of Nazi power poured through the gaps, the speed of the German spearheads...
...main defenses they would be up against the same sort of grim battling that Lieut. General George S. Patton's bigger Third Army had run into when it reached German soil along the Saar River. There, last week, the Americans were slowed to a painful crawl by a torrent of steel. At one point the Germans hit back at the rate of 250 shells an hour. Devers' and Patton's adversary, General Hermann Balck, was fighting smartly with what...
There was plenty of trash in this torrent. But in the good mysteries there was good writing-considerably better than that in most current straight novels. The reading of mysteries and comics was no longer necessarily a sign of low literary taste. Turning away from the turgid, plotless "problem" novels of the 19303, both readers and critics were rediscovering the literary values of good storytelling...