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Many of them were just barely able to hobble. They put one frozen, straw-shod and rag-bound foot in front of the other, at a pace that could not have exceeded a few hundred yards an hour. Some of them wept with pain as they walked, others lay sprawled grotesquely on the frozen stubble by the roadside, in the deathlike sleep of utter exhaustion. One R.O.K. rifleman was crawling on his hands and knees, his Garand still slung across his back, when some G.I.s with an I. and R. (Intelligence and Reconnaissance) platoon found him and packed...
...path of Walker's jeep. The general's driver could not avoid a collision. Walker was thrown to the road. He was dead when an ambulance got him to a field hospital two miles away.* Viewing his father's shrouded body, Captain Sam Walker wept. General MacArthur revealed that he had recently recommended a promotion for Walker to the four-star rank of a full general...
Early this month, the Singapore Supreme Court ruled that Bertha, Dutch by nationality and Roman Catholic by baptism, should be returned to her parents. By British law, she was under the age of consent and therefore her marriage to Mansur was annulled. The girl bride wept over the verdict. "I am a Moslem," she wailed. "I don't want to go to Christian parents." She turned to Che Aminah. "Mother, what can I do?" The Malay woman fainted...
...Flaws." Zorn followed the Golux to Hagga's hill, a place so high that it is dug in furrows "where the dragging points of stars had plowed the fields," and where "there was a smell . . a little like Forever in the air." There they found a woman who wept jewels-and sometimes, when she wasn't really very moved, she just cried costume jewelry...
...handwriting expert who solemnly testified that Williams' 18-year-old daughter Evangeline had written the letters, just to protect her father. When he heard his daughter falsely accused, for the first time Williams seemed to lose his assurance that he would finally be vindicated; he sat down and wept. But two other handwriting experts said that Evangeline could not have written the letters; the judge agreed to give Williams a new trial...