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...Oakland, Calif., two days after she was notified by the War Department that her brother had been killed on Leyte, Mrs. Caryl L. Picotte wept again with happiness. Her husband had been rescued from the prison camp on Luzon...
...King County Jail, 16-year-old John Emberg often wished he were dead. He was a dull, shy, slack-chinned boy. When a tough red head named Chuck Thomas forced other boys to fight him, he backed away, posturing timidly. When he was beaten with shoes and belts, he wept...
...hours they argued. Hitler screamed, wept, clawed the carpet. Later Rundstedt was reported to have said: "Rather ten carpets than one more defeat...
...cost more U.S. casualties than the taking of many a German village. Among the U.S. wounded was a sergeant who had had both legs blown off by a mine. To a major who came up to his stretcher, he mumbled weakly: "We took our objective, sir." The major wept...
When wellborn Erica Drake said she was going to marry her Jewish boyfriend, Father Drake howled his head off, Mother Drake wept torrents, the best people were appalled. But Erica stuck, to her guns. First published as a serial in Collier's, 30-year-old Author Graham's study of anti-Semitism in Canada would probably have stirred up more interest if it read more like a novel, less like a studied, romantic essay...