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World War II began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. At 5:45 a. m. the German training ship Schleswig-Holstein lying off Danzig fired what was believed to be the first shell: a direct hit on the Polish underground ammunition dump at Westerplatte. It was a grey day, with gentle rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs 1939: Roosevelt Learns of the Outbreak of WWII | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...tribulation is that dinner, once a full meal served in the mess tent, now often consists of field-issue MREs (meals, ready-to-eat) like hamburger, turkey tetrazzini and other delights that can be made almost edible by warming the packages in hot water, sunlight or even under an armpit. Some Marines lift weights; others read books (mostly science fiction, thrillers and mysteries). Like lonely troopers everywhere, many of them use their idle hours chiefly to write home. Seated at a picnic table, three beefy helicopter ground crewmen scribble side by side like overgrown schoolboys taking exams. One 19-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Listening for That Whistle | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...they enjoy being tickled. Such proximity yielded intimate details. Individual animals can readily be identified by their noses; no two have the same shape. Silver backs exude two distinct odors. One smells like a human locker room. The other, a pungent fear scent, is released by glands in the armpit. From the author's descriptions, family life resembles a picnic on the grass. Hulks shamble off to nibble vegetation or lie about contemplating their toes. "Naoom, naoom" is the low, belching sound of a contented gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Under the Volcanoes | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...Sean Connery and the world was so much younger-Bond had been a kind of role model for people of a certain class and ambition. Savoir-faire meant the aristocracy of style: which wine to decant, which brand of cigarette to smoke, which automatic weapon to carry under the armpit. Now that he was Roger Moore, 20 years later, Bond had degenerated into a male model, and something of a genial anachronism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bond Wagon Crawls Along | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

Drawn from "The Joy of Sex" and "The Joy of Cooking," Moffat's introduction begins with columns of words of abstract terms about reading in French, sex acts and objects, and ways of preparing mushrooms. Affirmation Armpit About Babel Bathing A la Schoener Babil Big toe Bisque and clam Bords Bites Broiled Brio Blowing Broth Clivage Bondage Butter Communaute Boots Canape Corps Butterd bun Canning Commentaire Chains Cauliflower and Derive Chastity belt Creamed Dire Chinese style Croquettes Droite Clothed intercourse Dried Echange Corsets Florentine Ecoute Dancing Frozen Emotion Discipline Identification Ennui Exercise Lima beans and Eavers Feathers Marinated Exactitude Femoral...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Saints, Proust and Baseball | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

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