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...apparent that the Nazis were worried. There were more arrests at Munich and a close watch on students at the schools. No one outside Germany could tell for certain how far the opposition had spread. But Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst had not died in vain. London got hold of the text of the leaflet which cost them their lives and broadcast it over...
...Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...
...Vain Bosses. American women are the victims of "endless competition" and their own vanity, are incapable of "spiritual submission to or harmony with a man." Usually pretty enough to afflict a visiting foreigner with the "buck ague," they rarely have enough character to be beautiful; they are their husbands' bosses, but are incapable of passion or intimacy...
...settling the high-octane-rubber dispute went, the Truman Committee had labored in vain. But it looked as if they might have settled Don Nelson's hash...
...total of 14 walks figured heavily against the Crimson in Friday's Sox rout. Among the many pitchers thrown into the fray in a vain attempt to stem the tide of Boson scoring, Jack Farley, victor over BU's Judge the following day; looked most effective...