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...week's end the British had cleared about a third of Athens. But from Epirus in the northwest came a sudden yelp of alarm. General Napoleon Zervas, barrel-chested commander of the pro-Government EDES guerrillas, protested that ELAS forces had overrun eight villages in his territory. Next day he abandoned his headquarters at Ioannina...
...sample record made in Richmond, Va., the unmistakable sounds of home set the scene-the chimes of St. Paul's church, the yelp of a newsboy, the tapping of tall heels, the clack-clack-clack of traffic over the Ninth Street Bridge. Neatly interlarded are remembered voices telling of remembered places, and quiet-spoken promises...
...meant $16,000,000,000 in new revenue (plus the $35,000,000,000 which present taxes will produce), from a citizenry which is just now learning what the 5% victory tax does to paychecks and will yelp with pain at the income taxes due in March. It meant compulsory savings, which sensitive Henry Morgenthau considers unAmerican. It might even mean sales taxes, which social-minded Henry Morgenthau hates even to talk about. It meant, in short, that the unhappy Secretary would have to find some way of wheedling, squeezing, talking or forcing into the Treasury an amount that...
...called, "Number 56? Please follow me." He was led to a desk where a nurse took his temperature and pulse, then swabbed his finger with alcohol. Producing a lethal little instrument resembling a fountain pen, she placed it on his finger and released the catch. Vag gave a little yelp as a pinpoint suddenly pierced his skin, and the nurse squeezed out a little blood onto a plate. "Thank you," she said, "and now would you go over there to drink some orange juice?" Vag complied willingly, and having downed it, waited for the summons...
Rumania's loudest yelp came from Premier Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu's nephew Mihai, who is Acting Foreign Minister. "During the last year," he said, "northern Transylvania [the part Hitler gave to Hungary], cradle of our country, was submitted to a regime of oppression and humiliation. . . . Its population has been jeered and tortured, its churches destroyed. Its land was taken away from the peasants. . . . We have the duty . . . to declare that such a state of affairs can no longer continue...