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Soft sucking lips kiss my left armpit: a coiling kiss on myriad veins. I burn! I crumple like a burning leaf! From my right armpit a fang of flame leaps out. A starry snake has kissed me: a cold nightsnake. I am lost! -Nora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinking Stones | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

Hussein takes it all philosophically. "When your time comes to die, you die," he says. "It is God's will." To even up the odds a bit, he wears a .38 pistol tucked in his belt or an armpit holster under his coat. But he obviously enjoys danger. His once cherubic face is now deeply lined, and his hair is flecked with grey, but his sturdy arms and legs are hard with the muscles of a sportsman. He is an inveterate hunter, horseman, scuba diver and deep-sea fisherman. He introduced water-skiing to Jordan, then took up kiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Least Unreasonable Arab | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...whacking of Wall (Robert Frink) on the chest elicits a cloud of plaster dust. And when Thisby (Mylo Quam) says, "Come, trusty sword," she repeats the line, whereupon the "dead" Pyramus hands her his own sword, with which she then proceeds to stab herself with studied phoniness under the armpit. (Ritchard has, in fact, introduced throughout the whole show a lot of business straight out of vaudeville and the music-hall...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Middling 'Midsummer Night's Dream' Opens | 7/3/1967 | See Source »

...Armpit .38. In the aftermath of Atlanta's riot, it became clear that the principal victim was the Negro cause. Up north, Harlem's Representative Adam Clayton Powell had only encomiums for Carmichael's style of leadership. At a press conference publicizing a black power convention scheduled for Oct. 15, Powell ranted: "Even Jesus did not tell you what to do after you have been struck on both cheeks." As for himself, Powell confided he invariably packs a Colt .38 under his armpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlanta: Stokely's Spark | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...dugout before each game, he grabs the bat rack and gives it a shake-which puts the whammy on enemy batters. Before every inning, he runs out to the mound at full speed. Before a key pitch, he studiously turns his back to the plate and taps his right armpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Magic on the Mound | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

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