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[THREE] As the staff car carrying Generals Almond and Howe started down the road beside the runway, McCoy paused long enough to wonder where they were going, then turned and motioned to Jeanette Pries...
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When you really get serious about some female, Clete, take a good look at her mother. That’s what your beloved will look like in twenty, thirty years.
The behavioral scientists at the University of California, after extensive research, concluded that the best human material to train to be a pilot are classified intellectually as cretins.
Himmler rarely made little jokes, and when he smiled he reminded Canaris of a funeral director who had just sold an impoverished widow the most expensive coffin he had for sale.
God, it is said, takes care of fools and drunks,
But he just knew how to fly. All they had to do was explain to him what the propeller was doing, spinning around like that.
You can’t tell what a warrior looks like.
What’s the field like? Finch
McCoy. It was also pretty clear
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Gentlemen, he said, I am a simple soldier. When I was a cadet at Norwich, I was told, and I believed, and my subsequent career has proven true, that the essence of command is to make sure the troops h...
And it also says, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’ McCoy said. And that ‘he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.
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Three kinds of men. There’re the ones who can learn by reading. And there’re the ones who can learn by observation.’ He paused to let that sink in. And? Payne said. ‘And then there’s the rest of them...
That, finishing, That’s what we were doing in Vienna, giving a Russian female NKGB agent, who also works for Mossad,
Senior officer presumed to be a better judge of
Mysterious chemistry that sometimes developed between seemingly dissimilar men—each surprisingly recognizing in the other a deep-down, kindred soul, the two of them bobbing along alone and unappreciat...
His cylinder head temperature right at 215° Centigrade. That’s what the book said was the most efficient climbing attitude, and Major Parks flew by the book. As they passed through 12,000 feet, he put...