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...grasped it and turned back the cover. It just couldn't be true. There, in the familiar hand was scrawled "unsatisfactory." In a minute he was up on the front steps of the library building, his mind still an utter blank. Then a feeling of rebellion began to swell up within him. "What do those damn college girls know about grading business reports?" he roared...
...Yesterday eve did attend the sinking and utter destruction of the good ship North Carolina. Off betimes to a lifeboat, and so to bed." No more diaries for the Navy, by official order, and that goes for any sort of record or engagement book...
...brew. Vag wondered vaguely whether Russians liked Scotch and sodas, or had a phrase for "bottoms up." "EE vwi!" the instructor screamed as he bounded from his chair and bore down threateningly on Vag. Vag froze in his seat and searched frankly for the word. "Da," he managed to utter tentatively, and then, when no lightning struck, "Da, da, da, da" he repeated enthusiastically, looking awfully intelligent about the whole matter, while the instructor waved his arms madly, burbled, and made other strenuous noises...
...must pull ourselves up short. We must stop groping. Let us make no mistake. This is the real thing, played for keeps. The Germans cracked in 1918. . . . They will crack again. The Japanese will not crack. Only by utter physical destruction or utter exhaustion can they be defeated. That is what we are up against. Too long have we nurtured the illusion that the Japanese is an insignificant person. . . . The Japanese is physically small, but he is sturdy. . . . He is half starved, but he is Spartan. . . . He is a clever and dangerous enemy. His will to conquer is utterly ruthless...
...there is the other side to the picture, the ugly side of cruelty, brutality and utter bestiality, the ruthlessness and rapaciousness of the Japanese military machine which brought on this war. That Japanese military machine and military caste and military system must be utterly crushed...