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...slashed into the Suwalki triangle, which Germany annexed in 1939. Bagramian's drive toward Riga while Chernyakhovsky waited had probably cost the latter his chance to be first to the sea. Now Chernyakhovsky held in his grasp a greater honor: that of seeing his divisions the first to tread the earth of Germany...
...Global war, the first in the history of the world, had walked with capricious tread. In China millions had died, millions were destitute after nearly seven years of it. Russia, after 33 months of it, was fighting back to victory over thousands of devastated square miles; her casualties were enormous. Germany was in terrible pain, full of dead and maimed, pockmarked by the greatest bomb damage any nation had ever suffered. The conquered peoples of Europe still starved and died...
...tread water, take off your pants or jacket, tie a knot in the legs or sleeves, button them up and swing them through the air so that the arms and legs fill with air. Then twist the open ends so that the air stays in and you have a life preserver...
...Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa, a twelve-hour daily curfew beginning at 5 p.m.; for sabotage and terror, the death penalty. Palestine, home of half a million Jews and a million Arabs, already one of the world's most thoroughly policed lands, now felt more heavily than ever the tread of law & order...
...politics he stood left of center, where the heart belongs, the leader of the Radical Socialists. In statesmanship he fell heir to Briand's mantle; he preached the gospel of a United States of Europe, but his wise, rotund and sentimental words were lost in the smashing tread of the Brownshirt goosestep...