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...woke up, looked around unsteadily, picked up his gold-braided cap, shuffled off. Seven hours later, shorn of his Marshal's uniform, he deplaned at bleak Portalet Fortress in the Pyrenees...
...exhausted Japanese was sleeping when the medic reached him at the fringe of the prisoners, and he woke him by tapping the little man on the head with his scissors. The prisoner sat up quickly, bowing and forcing little smiles. The doctor took one look, turned to Bach and said: "Let's get him out of here tonight. He looks like he's in an advanced stage of tuberculosis...
Four days later Larry Doyle woke up. He could not remember the accident, but otherwise he was clearheaded. "[The doctor] told me my right arm, my entire right side and both legs were paralyzed because of damage to my brain. Then he pumped enthusiasm into me. He told me I could get back their use if I really wanted...
Rights of Man. In Washington, B.C., a New York Congressman got a letter from a constituent who complained that his corporal always woke up the whole hut when he had to rouse one soldier. "Sir," concluded the constituent, "I would like to have someone do something about him." Autobiographer. In Wethersfield, Conn., Nicholas A. Rossi, a writer of mur der mysteries, was executed for murder...
Then one morning Japan gave us the worst defeat in our whole 168 years of independent history. We woke up with a start and said: "Why, those Japanese are good. And if they can do that to us, how in the world have the Chinese been able to hold out against them for four and a half years? The Chinese must be good, too." Our estimate of the Chinese began to soar...