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Alligators & Hot Resin. Pinto had at least nine lives, and needed all of them. He was five times shipwrecked, 13 times put to slave labor. In China he was kept for two days, waist-deep in water, in a cistern crawling with leeches. Another time he put in 26 days in a lice-infested prison cell. The Burmans tortured him by dropping hot resin on his skin. A humane man himself, Pinto decided that his tormentors were simply retaliating for the brutalities that rakehell Portuguese had first inflicted on them...
...brutal battleground. The temperature dipped as low as 52° below zero. Soldiers clad in nearly 25 Ibs. of special Arctic clothing, carrying another 34 Ibs. of special equipment, crawled through waist-deep snow, over hummocks of frozen muskeg. For hundreds of miles on every side stretched trackless pine forests and mountains. Said one corporal: "Anybody who'd invade this Godforsaken place is just plain damn wacky...
Winter came early in the mountains of northern Greece this year. For almost two months the Greek army had been fighting waist-deep in snow along the craggy frontier. Whenever the gunfire died away, the sharp cold silence was shattered by another sound, the voice of the rebel radio. "Greek soldiers, why are you up here in the mountains slowly freezing to death, dying like trapped mountain goats? Whom are you fighting for? Rich people sitting back comfortably in Athens, avoiding their military service and getting richer and richer? What...
...thing about the fine crop was that the stalks were stunted; no man could stand waist-deep in most Oklahoma wheatfields. But the heads of the wheat were astonishingly fat. Many had what appeared to be double heads. When he first picked some samples, the Oklahoma Experiment Station's Dr. A. M. Schlehuber, who has done wheat research for 17 years, thought that he had found a new variety. But as the telescope-like heads turned up on one variety after another, he discarded his theory, confessed: "I don't know...
Command Decision (by William Wister Haines; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) had several critics waist-deep in adjectives and recalling What Price Glory? Long hopeful of a good drama about World War II, they were partly confusing the quality of the drink with the intensity of their thirst. But no one could question that in Command Decision World War II had finally inspired an effective play...