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...Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." -John Milton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 | 4/13/1945 | See Source »

...know where to follow if the tears blur our visit and pessimism beclouds our minds. There was no hope who accept the inevitability of war, who have taken "World War III" into their vocabulary, will doubt more deeply now the possibilities for peace. President Roosevelt is gone, they will wail, and Simple Uncle Sam will be outsmarted in his own San Francisco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 | 4/13/1945 | See Source »

...Germans swore they would deny Antwerp to the Allies as a port. In Belgian cities along the V-bomb routes, sirens wail frequently, as the noisy V-1s pass overhead. But no sirens sound in Antwerp, the bombs' principal target. In Antwerp men never leave the ack-ack guns, the city's defense against the V-1s. Against the faster-than-sound V-2s, there is no defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: City of Sudden Death | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...Rome Star) twelve hours to make the 135-mile run that crack trains used to make in less than four hours. But to Italians, who for a year and a half have known the isolation, despair and hunger that follow the collapse of a highly developed technological civilization, the wail of the Stella Roma's whistle would seem almost to announce the end of a new Dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Stella Roma | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...chimney and found the fire reached to 11½° above the horizon. He pulled out a slide rule and calculated its height-2,800 feet. Within minutes crowds of men, women & children were leaving their homes to hurry wildly along the sidewalks, clutching bundles of belongings. The wail of fire sirens rose all over the city and sound trucks blared directions to refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: The Tanks Go Up | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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