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...without benefit of a search warrant), impounded slot machines and took a brutal delight in pistol-whipping lawbreakers and cursing their wives and womenfolk. One day his automobile blew up as he stepped on the starter-somebody had inserted dynamite caps in the engine. Somehow Ambrose Metcalfe walked away unhurt.* Once a moonshiner blasted at him with a shotgun; he was only grazed...
...pines snagged the plane's wings. The C82 lurched, crashed, burst into flames. Pilot Kilpatrick and two crewmen died in their seats. A pilot instructor and a lieutenant observer got out. Cool-headed Sergeant Hodgkiss also tumbled out, unhurt. Said he of his thoughts in the few seconds before the crash, "I just sat there and thought about my wife, Pearl Lucille. We've only been married nine months...
Service Charge. In Columbus, Ohio, Albert French complained that when he fell through the third-story window of a hotel and landed unhurt, the manager billed him for the broken glass...
...There is the strong-jawed "short-circuit beetle," for instance, that gnaws into lead cables. There are insects that live in crude petroleum. There is a clever bug (Dermatobia hominis, an invader from South America) that catches flies, lays its eggs on the flies' legs, then releases them unhurt to carry the larvae to man (where they burrow under the human skin). As Hyslop talks, bugs by the thousand that he has known and loved creep or fly winningly through his memories...
Someone tossed a bomb into the yard of Communist Thorez's house at Choisy-le-Roi. Thorez was unhurt, but his wife was cut by flying glass. Without conscious irony, Thorez remarked: "There seems to be a lack of order in the country...