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...last month the 19 "lepers" were told that doctors had at last figured out what was wrong: they were suffering from X-ray burns. Here & there a wife wept quietly. But most of the men felt better at once, though they were victims' of the most tragic blunder in U.S. industrial medicine...
...flivver, bootleg poison in his veins and "a big Polish girl on my lap and her breasts smelling of rich cigars." He was temperamental, even with the delicate Roxane: "I knocked her down on to the bed. She got up and I knocked her down again. . . . She wept. 'That's twice you've hit me. But I can't help it. I love Jon.' " So Abner picked her up tenderly and treated her "discolored...
...demoralized. At least one-fourth of central Europe's population died in the greatest disaster which ever befell the Continent. Half the population of England died. At Avignon the Pope consecrated the Rhone so that corpses could be dumped into it for Christian burial. In Italy Petrarch wept over "the empty houses, the abandoned towns, the squalid country, the fields crowded with the dead, the vast and dreadful solitude over the whole world...
...Private Sergei Sazonovich Sviridov, a farm boy from Roga, wept on his hospital bed and cried to the New York Times's C. L. Sulzberger: "I didn't ever get a chance to join in the real attack. I was wounded. If my feet would permit. . . ." His hospital record said: "Feet blown off by shell...
...Tikhonov, a scout, was supposed to bring his prisoners in alive, for questioning. But his prisoners always had their heads and bodies bashed and were dead or dying. Scout Tikhonov wept, and wrung his hands, and promised to do better, and never did. He said that he had seen the Germans rape and kill a girl in the barn at home...