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...choking with the reek of cordite and grit and the fine dry dust of rotten old woodwork. My eyes and nose were full of dirt. I was shivering from panic and excitement, but at the same time experiencing an extraordinary sensation of being completely all right and unhurt, no matter what horrible thing had happened...
...London a robomb hit a house in which an old 'man was taking a bath. Nothing was left but debris, so there did not seem to be much use searching for the body. But rescue squads dug in, presently dug out the old man, dazed but otherwise unhurt, and still sitting in the bathtub. Said he: "I don't know how it happened. I just pulled out the plug and the house blew...
...Allied advance toward Calais goaded the Germans to fire last stinging salvos from their big cross-Channel guns. Some 100 big shells crashed down on the Dover strip ("Hell's Corner") in the space of four hours.* One deaf old lady of 82 slept on, unhurt, while her home was wrecked. When fire wardens awoke her amid the ruins, she looked around, said: "What a mess...
...Blast would, as it did, strip the clothing off a woman near a factory window, leave the factory and its machines virtually undamaged. It would, as it did, suck the beer out of a mug in a man's hand, leave the mug, the man and his hand unhurt. It would also kill without leaving a visible wound...
Harold J. Laski, Britain's brilliant, bucktoothed, left-wing economist, plunged five flights without getting out of bed when a Nazi robomb wrecked his hotel. The bed landed upright. Occupant Laski: unhurt...