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...E AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii 1 THE COLD WARRIORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Strategic Flexibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 THE LEADERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 General Curtis E. LeMay (1906–90) . . . . . . 17 Admiral Hyman G. Rick...

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...he auxiliary com- mittee, composed of M. Brown, Bradley, Ford, Soutbworth, War- ren and Wight, and the sophomore and freshmen speakers. Follow- ing th... ...chet. " Mein- Ixirs of the underclasses, I am now to bury the hatchet of a war which was more of strategy and words than of strife and bloodshed. Cons... ...l at Farmer, N. Y'. and then studied law in Auburn, N. Y. During tho Civil War he was clerk in the otiico of the Provost Marsiial of Ilia district and... ... and in 1859 received his M. D. from New York university. During the Civil War he served as surgeon in the 54th and 58th New Y'ork volun teers and too... ...uch as none of tliH pitching s([Uiid were in regu- lar form because of the cold weather. The fielding, esjiecially tliut of the inhcld, was good, even... ...le the scholar- ship disqualitioations have liandi- cajiped the squad, the cold weather has retarded the development of material more than anything el... ...OK Coach Wefert Names Promising Candidates—Trials Thursday In spite of the cold weather, over seventy men have reported for track practice on Weston F... ... reported for track practice on Weston Field during the last few days. The cold has kept Coach Wefers from demanding vigorous practice from any of the... ...an and one scratch hit and giving but two bases on balls, ill spite of the cold. Although Davis had more strike-outs to his credit, he was found for t...

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... “Royce Lee — he’s dead.” Royce Lee — he’s dead. The words descended like cold fog. “Royce? Dead?” “He killed himself. He shot at... ...of the bourbon, Hannah began. “I got home at three o’clock this afternoon. It was cold, Laura Kate, so cold, for December. I knew I was in trouble... ...” “No,” she said, walking around the chalked outline. “Inhumanity and death during war ceases to be extraordinary when the numbness of daily slaugh... ...ack humor?” “Yep.” After a protracted pause, he sighed. “Sorry if you think me cold-hearted.” His words bounced off her heart, and she breat... ...l. Hiram scratched his stubbly jaw. “Yesterday?” “Yeah, Sunday.” “T’was cold.” “Yes,” Wiley said, trying to remain patient. “It was. ... ... couldn’t pick one question that Jack hadn’t prepared him for. Oh well, it was too cold for golf. Gerrie Ferris 42 Chapter Seven Of all... ... of the night. Were you up to mischief? I don’t know, ever since you went off to war…” “Mama, Royce is — was — my attorney. When I got the ba... ...am Green.” She touched her skull. “He’s a little — well, you know — drink and the war.” “Will he come here this evening?” “Never know when he’l... ...ably late when he strode into the room looking like a figure from a movie about The War Between the States. His rakish smile lit the room and threat...

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...he sun itself when it was for a few moments dimly indicated through circling eddies of fog, showed as if it had gone out and were collapsing flat and cold....

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...g eddies of fog, showed as if it had gone out and were collapsing flat and cold. Even in the sur- rounding country it was a foggy day, but there the f... ...ing what befell him as it might befall. After a time, when he had grown so cold as to be fain to blow upon his fingers, he arose and knocked with his ... ...me for you with hot water. Put your poor little feet on the fender. It’s a cold, cold night, and the fog clings so.’ As Miss Abbey helped her to turn ... ...gain.’ In those very same moments, Bella was thinking, ‘Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon com- pulsion, what I knew all ... ...e, if I could get enough for it.’ And so she would come round again to the war with herself. A kind of illegibility, though a different kind, stole ov... ...ases of avarice and dirt, through Miss Dancer’s death on a sick regimen of cold dumpling, and 65 Charles Dickens through Mr Dancer’ s keeping his rag... ... ‘That can’t be the spot too?’ said V enus. ‘No,’ said Wegg, ‘he’s getting cold.’ ‘It strikes me,’ whispered V enus, ‘that he wants to find out whethe...

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...l The Untamed, the first of three novels featuring the classic western hero Dan Barry was filmed in 1920, starring Tom Mix. Faust became a front line war correspondent and died of wounds received while traveling with American soldiers in Italy, May 12, 1944. Trailin’ (1919) tells the story of Anthony Bard, a young aristocract from the east with a hunger for adventure, who ...

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...hic cause; though it must be confessed by both of us that this is rather a cold reason for allowing a friendship such as ours to die out by degrees. I... ...And again, in his message of December 8, 1846, that “we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities; but even th... ...ally, under wholly unjustifi- able pretexts, involved the two countries in war, by invad- ing the territory of the State of Texas, striking the first ... ...ettlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. Eighth. Whether the military force of the United States was or was not... ...o that settlement after General Taylor had more than once intimated to the War Depart- ment that, in his opinion, no such movement was neces- sary to ... ...ter from you. Most truly your friend, A. LINCOLN. SPEECH ON DECLARATION OF WAR ON MEXICO SPEECH IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY... ...uch an earnest, im- pressive, if not, indeed, tragic, manner, as to make a cold chill creep over me. Others gave a similar experience.] I have listene...

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... only too glad to trot about for us.—What else would he do?” Very soon the cold which old age spreads about itself be- gan to set in; the communicable... ...old which old age spreads about itself be- gan to set in; the communicable cold which sensibly lowers the social temperature, especially if the old ma... ... a cost. Alas! Pons did not dare to confess that heart and stomach were at war within him, that he could digest affronts which pained his heart, and, ... ...; or she would spill the gravy over his clothes. In short, she waged petty war after the manner of a petty nature, knowing that she could annoy an unf... ...ut it was all thrown away upon the audience. Mother and daughter exchanged cold, contemptuous glances.— ”What an oddity!” they seemed to say. “So it a... ... say. “So it amuses you?” remarked Mme. de Marville. The ques- tion sent a cold chill through Pons; he felt a strong desire to slap the Presidente. “W... ...eum rooms and furniture with the agility of sailors cleaning down a man-of-war. There was not a speck of dust on the carved wood; not an inch of brass... ...d of broken bread, crusts and crumbs, for a farthing, a porringer- full of cold potatoes for something less, and other scraps in proportion. Remonencq... ...e statesman, in the conceptions of the inventor, or the soldier’s toils of war; the fire within is apt to flash out in gleams of marvelously vivid lig...

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...a wanton who would put up with any vio- lence. He knows that in France her war-cry is, Mount Joy! A fine cry indeed, but one which certain writers hav... ...he cat and pat the dog, to salute the friends, to flatter the gout, or the cold of the aunt, to say to her at opportune mo- ments “You have good looks... ...ywhere. Under these circumstances, the monasteries and abbeys that were at war with their neighbours would not recognise both the popes, and found the... ... would find short horse-hair in the sheets, he would bring 42 Balzac down cold water on to the bed, and a thousand other tricks were arranged, such a... ...id I ever refuse to obey you even dur- ing Lent, and on fast days? Am I so cold as to freeze the sun? Do you think that I embrace by force, from duty,... ...eath had fallen save the breath issued from his conjugal and marital lips, cold and withered as they were. T o speak truly on all points, it should be... ...fondled thus, and not used like a trombone, or as if it were a catapult of war? Now this was the gentle way of my beloved Englishman.” Thus saying, th... ...an eye that changed not even after his last sigh. This sight turned her as cold as marble, and terrified her so much 76 Balzac that she remained rigi... ...oyal armies was likely to take place. The principal one which finished the war was given between Ruffec and Angouleme, where all the prisoners taken w...

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...d let loose, but finally it settled down upon the strategy of the constant war waged in Paris between credi- tors and debtors. Now, if you will be so ... ...nglish Cabinet. Up to the time of his marriage, his life was one continual war, like—Lousteau’s, 6 A Man of Business for instance. I was, and am stil... ...d and looked full at the intruder; Cerizet not merely endured the glare of cold fury, but even returned it, with an icy, cat-like malignance and fixit... ...o the aunt called Croizeau), wished to see him. Cerizet’s decla- ration of war had so far taken effect that he of the yellow kid gloves was studying t...

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...fe. When first Chaldicotes, a very old country seat, had by the chances of war fallen into their hands and been newly furnished, and newly decorated, ... ...e, and the marchioness herself moved, and spoke, and ate, and drank with a cold magnificence, which I think had become a second nature with her, but w... ..., and although cloaks and shawls had been supplied to her, she was wet and cold when she reached her home. But at such a moment, anxious as she was to... ...f thinking that his silence had been caused by her absence, and not by his coldness or indifference. She asked, therefore, for an interview with Miss ... ...till past mid- night. At last, when she told him that she herself was very cold, and reminded him that for the last hour there had been no fire, still... ...e, sir.’ Thompson looked up at the rain, and told himself that it was very cold. Then he remembered Mr Walker’s injunc- tion, and bethought himself th... ...ar to the Dowager Lady Lufton, because he carried on worthily the clerical war against the bishop which had raged in Barchester ever since Dr Proudie ... ...p which had raged in Barchester ever since Dr Proudie had come there—which war old Lady Lufton, good and pious and charitable as she was, considered t... ...acemaker, changed the conversation again and began to talk of the American war. But even that was made a matter of discord on church matters—the archd...

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...s offer connectivity within an historical context (tradition). E-books are cold and impersonal, alienated and detached. The printed word offers perma... ...and, lately, through Selective Dissemination of Information, or SDI). The war is by no means decided. "Progress" may yet consist of the assimilation ... ...nformation and opinion that is a prerequisite to both (a) and (b). It is a war zone where many fear to tread. the Wikipedia is a negative filter (see... ...ield between have countries and have-not countries. It will be a cultural war zone (English against French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Spanish).... ...ecrepit - fixed phone network. Thus, in Serbia, smarting from a decade of war and destitution, both the penetration and the growth rates are dismal, ... ... role of satellite telephones in the media coverage of the televised Gulf War - or the anti Ceausescu revolution in Romania. These are precisely the...

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...ical benefits: In August 1945, a rumor spread to the effect that Russia declared war on Japan only because Russia received in exchange the secret ... ...n effected. In this sense, U.S. attempts to rally popular support for the Vietnam War cannot be called propaganda because of the presence of consid... ...ied to an ankle sprain, because medical practice seems to vacillate between hot and cold. Again, whether the protein content of eggs is beneficial, ... ...c.); force-taking of utility without offering a payment (for example, by burglary, war, extortion, or conquest); or gift-conferring utility without t... ...n extreme example, an army is better equipped and better trained at the end of the war than at any other time, yet it does not, these days, look for... ... cause problems, as Martin Luther King found when he came out in opposition to the war in Vietnam and lost support for his civil rights positions. ... ...e concepts of caring and sharing enter into what might otherwise be considered the cold, inhumane aspects of industrialization. This part of the p... ...raditional customs are at odds with the boiling water. A firm believer in the hot-cold superstition, she feels that only the sick must drink boiled... ...sues with marketing tools, marketing research has concentrated in the past on the "cold sores" of society and ignored the "cancers.” Few of the imp...

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...Apparently, there’s been an underground, cold war going on, not noticed much by humans, between “good” vampires—those who have altered their biological needs and can use synthetic blood—and “bad” vampires—Rogues who actively enjoy hunting, draining and butchering hu...

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... 22 J.Cross/Artemis Artemis thought for a long time before speaking. "A war on drugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No... ...ugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No, Senator. Not a war. There have been too many wars." "Father, I appreciate your senti... ...untries. No, Father, if we are to stop the drug trade we must have an all-out war. Call it a 'Holy War' if you like, but nonetheless, a war!" "Sena... ...mis managed a smile. "In the meantime, I will consider other ideas, besides a war." Artemis wanted to say something more, but didn't know how, so he... ..., and tears started welling up in his eyes. “You need help, Alex,” she said coldly. “Marian, I need your help,” he said, emphasizing ‘your’. “I... ...e some unexpected help." Antonio stiffened, and broke out, instantly, into a cold sweat. 123 J.Cross/Artemis The latter, was probably the mos... ...he alcohol the night before. Sleep was now impossible, so he decided to take a cold shower. The icy shards brought him to a reasonable sense of norma... ...ICE A dark, gray dusk was beginning to settle over D.C. as an unusually cold October wind howled across the grounds of the Capital, ripping br... ...nklin here?" Just then, Franklin, Director of the FBI, walked in. "God, it's cold out there," he said shivering and rubbing his hands together. He ...

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...aton, or the literary classics of the 1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregatio... ...e 13 immortal line, “Man, you’ll get my Library of Congress when you pry my cold dead fingers off it!” 9 Familiar with the effect of this kind of trai... ...ion of property rights is needed in order to fuel progress. Indeed, the post-Cold War “Washington consensus” is invoked to claim that the lesson of hi... ...f property rights is needed in order to fuel progress. Indeed, the post-Cold War “Washington consensus” is invoked to claim that the lesson of history... ... complexities of the issue, the record companies did not want to engage in a war of dueling empirical studies. So, if Napster’s users were not infring... ...use, though, may not cover every concern about free expression. Before World War II, Alan Cranston— later a U.S. Senator—wanted to convince American r... ...he program’s method of spreading itself, like the irritation produced by the cold virus that encourages sneezes and coughs, thereby transmitting the i... ...e mental topography of the high-tech economy. But where the DeCSS case was a war of metaphors around the boundaries of freedom of expression, the iPod...

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...therefore left without a degree. When this oc- curred, a family council of war had been held among the Onslows, and it was decided that Herbert should... ...o sedate, so womanly, so attentive as regarded cousinly friendship, and so cold as regarded everything else, that he did not know how to speak to her.... ...o love me? Oh, Isa, I have thought of this so long! But you have seemed so cold that I have not dared to speak. Isa, can you love me?” And he sat hims... ...to him. He rarely found himself alone with Isa, and when he did do so, her coldness overawed him. He could dare to scold her and sometimes did do so, ... ...four, would be the same to her, he said, as he seated himself in the dull, cold room which he had cho- sen. While living in the Ludwigs Strasse he did... ... which he had been so seldom allowed to press; but he knew that he was now cold and comfortless, and he wished himself back in the Ludwigs Strasse. “M...

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...here, the dark, tall statures of the Princes Metzengerstein—their muscular war-coursers plunging over the carcasses of fallen foes —startled the stead... ...orbed in the heavenly scenery beneath me, I was startled by something very cold which pressed with a gentle pressure on the back of my neck. It is nee... ...ut. Audacity:—Y our diddler is audacious.—He is a bold man. He carries the war into Africa. He conquers all by assault. He would not fear the daggers ... ...utter some ques- tions, and learned, among other glorious news, that civil war is raging in Africa, while the plague is doing its good work beau- tifu... ...light shed upon philosophy by Humanity, the world was accustomed to regard War and Pes- tilence as calamities? Do you know that prayers were actually ... ... most at heart—I mean the mysterious circumstances at- tending the Bugaboo war—and, on my own part, what I con- ceive to be a proper sense of delicacy...

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...te—a beautiful personal presence, that of a prince in very truth, a ruler, war rior, patron, lighting up brave architecture and diffusing the sense o... ...it, turned somersaults and did tricks in the tank of water which looked so cold and uncomfortable to the non amphibious. He listened to his companion ... ...? The deep danger, the only one that made him, as an idea, positively turn cold, would have been the possibility of her seeking him in marriage, of he... ...e would do it. He knew himself, however, well enough not to doubt: he knew coldly, quite bleakly, where he would, at the crisis, draw the line. It was... ...bottom in him, the aesthetic principle, planted where it could burn with a cold still flame; where it fed almost wholly on the material directly involv... ...er we must be prepared for.” And she had with her high reasoning a strange cold smile. “We are prepared—for anything, for everything; and as we are, p...

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...ildren usually are in no mood to ski: they miss their parents, and they’re cold. Because of their lack of coordination and hav- ing uncomfortable skis... ...their time lying in the snow. A child who misses his or her parents and is cold and wet is never pleasant. The ski lift is an instructor’s worst night... ... him for the rest of his life. Bruce trained all his young life to start a war against crime to avenge his dead parents. Superman, however, was the so... ... has used sources improperly or without documentation. Besto of Four ON A COLD, dreary morning in January, I left my house for school. I departed a f...

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...ec’s had risen to be an Admiral and a knight for valiant action in the old war, when men could rise. Him they besought to take charge of the youth, an... ...ON BOARD THE JOCASTA FROM THE TAGUS to the Thames the Government sloop-of- war, Jocasta, had made a prosperous voyage, bearing that pre- cious freight... ... the fair speaker lent her eyes to the question, and shut her lips; sweet, cold, chaste lips she had: a mouth that had not yet dreamed of kisses, and ... ...indifferently, and then with a sort of fervour, ‘Why do you always grow so cold to me whenever we get on this subject?’ ‘I cold?’ Evan responded. The ... ..., she must kiss. She could have slapped Rose for appearing so reserved and cold. She hugged Rose, as to hug oblivion of the last few minutes into her.... ...m——’ Mrs. Fiske fell into a chair, and surrendered to grief. ‘Where is the cold tongue?’ said Mrs. Mel to Sally, the maid, in a brief under-voice. ‘Pl... ...thes on! … If he’d ony’ve had a comfortable sheet! … It makes a woman feel cold to think of him full dressed there, as if he was goin’ to be a soldier... ...g manifestations of stiff-backedness, could not forbear add- ing: ‘I am at war with my sympathies, which should be with the poor brute flying from his... ...rve to Drummond: ‘Your Countess doesn’t ruffle well.’ But a lady who is at war with two or three of the facts of Providence, and yet will have Provide...

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...er Herzog was born in a small town outside of Frankfurt to an emotionally detached mother and a Nazi-sympathizing stepfather at the tail end of World War II. Teenage Walter and his pals come to school drunk and oversexed; eventually, they skip classes altogether to make out with girls and earn drinking money. Over the years, restless Walter finds himself loving numerous wo...

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...s' use. Germany's infrastructure had been destroyed by British and American bombing and by fighting on the ground. Twelve months after the end of the war in Europe, it still took seventy-two hours to travel by rail from Munich to Hamburg. Heavy war reparations had to be paid by the remaining Germans. The alleged father of the baby, Friedrich Herzog, had yet to return from...

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...eated as a research site for these budding world-builders, someplace to find the weird and wacky (but mostly true) things that happened between World War I and World War II. In short time though, the community turned our quiet library into a raucous speakeasy and it’s been growing ever since. What you’re about to read is a collection of short stories assembled from th...

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...to do with no one no more, which made everyone else agree that Texas had the right idea.” He emphatically flicked his glowing cigarette butt into the cold, dark shadows. “From there it was all downhill. No more Union. No more United States of America.” He grinned. “And plenty more space ‘round the edges for young upstanding ‘entrepreneurs’ like ourselves. So we can make a ...

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...ay to the bar. Before films and television arrived to bewitch the world, paintings could sway multitudes, convert sceptics and provoke intellectual war. Today, they’ve been reduced to decoration, and the only certainty for aspiring painters is that a market for their outpourings is not assured. I slunk to a corner, sipped my drink and nibbled humble pie. ‘Cheer up you m...

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...hat how well we encountered them. We used the whole world for our benefits and interests by uniting the whole world on one platform in the name of war against terrorism and killed these terrorists in their own countries chasing one by one.”Mr. David takes a deep breath and continues his emotional and aggressive comments. Everybody applauds. Before Mr. David restarts ...

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...ve Within it. How She has Lived for Three Years and Still Lives on Half a Dime a Day.” Sarah Elizabeth (‘Lizzie‘) Monmouth, born in 1829, was a Civil War widow, living on a run-down small farm in New Hampshire, when her investments imploded. She awoke one morning to find herself poor--an old roof above her, “dearer than life,” but “not a dollar of money left.” For months s...

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...r join voluntarily. The majority of those soldiers come from less well-to-do backgrounds and Space Force Grunts tells about their perspective of that war....

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...netary tanks and basic anti-jet capabilities. They had come with their field artillery and were supplied with self-guided missiles and a new batch of war drones and fighter robots. Their previous set of bots and drones had all been used up. They came to a base that was in urgent need of repair and they had to restore even their sleeping quarters before they could lay down ...

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...civilisation that has spread over thousands of worlds after the invention of hyperspace flight. They are fighting an enemy they don't understand in a war they did not choose. Space Grunts is told mainly from the perspective of the rank and file of the Human Alliance ground forces, who face an eminent foe, commanding over far superior means. Space Force Grunts tells about t...

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...netary tanks and basic anti-jet capabilities. They had come with their field artillery and were supplied with self-guided missiles and a new batch of war drones and fighter robots. Their previous set of bots and drones had all been used up. They came to a base that was in urgent need of repair and they had to restore even their sleeping quarters before they could lay down ...