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Tied to the stake, Laval stood facing the rifle points. "Vive la France," he cried. The volley sent a chilly stir through the prison building...
...squad of West Point cadets raised rifles at the graveside, fired a volley, then another and another. A bugle sounded the long notes of taps. The crowd heard the order "March!" The grey-clad cadets swung smartly away. It was 10:45 am' The crowd slowly scattered...
...Oliver Cromwell's famed henchman, Colonel Monck, who taught them "to keep a line, stay unbroken, hold [fire] until the word of command." Nearly a century later, at the Battle of Fontenoy, Coldstream muskets wiped out the entire front line of the French Guards in a single volley. The Guards served with distinction at Waterloo, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. In Nieppe Forest in 1918, a handful of Coldstreamers were ordered to stand up to the great German advance at all costs, and were wiped out almost to the last man. At Dunkirk they helped hold...
Replied Author Herbert in his second volley to the Times: "It is idle for the Rev. Dom Aelred Graham, the Pope, or anyone else to fling such texts at the British people and expect them to be followed literally as guides to conduct after five years of bloody war against a Satanic foe. And which texts are we to follow? What about Matthew 5:39-'Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also'? Should we never have gone...
...served every day in the air-conditioned plant (none of the executive offices are air-conditioned). There are nurseries for the children of women workers, libraries with the book shelves economically made from old packing cases, an employes' orchestra to play for dancing during the lunch hour, volley ball, handball and base ball games. To the parents of new babies go record books, blue for boys, pink for girls. On Christmas, turkeys are sent free to everyone. This year, to make sure of getting them, Grumman bought the eggs and is now in the turkey business...