1. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air.
2. It seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. It tore three large cargo ships from their moorings and beached them.
3. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.
4. Camille, meanwhile, … dropping more than 28 inches of rain into West Virginia and southern Virginia, causing rampaging floods, huge mountain slides and 111 additional deaths before breaking up over the Atlantic Ocean.
5. Before dawn, the Mississippi National Guard and civil-defense units were moving in to handle traffic, guard property, set up communications centers, help clear the debris and take the homeless by truck and bus to refugee centers.
6. Hiroshima --- the “liveliest” city in Japan
7. Was I not at the scene of the crime?
8. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.
9. I now stood on the site of the first atomic bombardment, where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second, where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony.
10. “Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town kown throughout the world for its --- oysters.”
11. “You listen to me, your high-an’-mightiness.”
12. The Trial That Rocked the World
13. Darrow had whispered, throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.
14. The case had erupted round my head not long after I arrived in Dayton as science teacher and football coach at the secondary school.
15. When I was indicted on May 7, no one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U.S. history.
16. By the time the trial began on July 10, our town of 1,500 people had taken on a circus atmosphere.
17. After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century …
18. After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century …
19. … until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men …
20. … until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men …
21. “The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.”
22. Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena …
23. Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire.
24. Then the court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that for Bryan.
25. One shop announced: DAWWIN IS RIGHT --- INSIDE.
26. Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat”.
27. The oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little court in Dayton swept … bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has grown with the passing years.
28. I found another Twain as well --- one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profou
nd personal tragedies life dealt him, a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly …
29. …who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.
30. From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to bepines and what they really are.
31. He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.
32. … but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.
33. Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles, …
34. “It was a splendid population --- for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home …”
35. Casually he debunked revered artists and art treasuers, and took unholy verbal shots
at the Holy Land.

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