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They came on bicycles - runty, bowlegged little men in cheap, stained uniforms, half of them wearing spectacles, only one out of every 25 armed with a machine gun, the rest carrying .25-caliber rifles. They were drenched in old sweat - "you could smell a troop of Japs 100 feet away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BEWARE, THERE IS AMERICA | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

They were almost smack in the middle of the Jap task force. Lieut. "Benny" Moore, his bald, bowlegged, Texas flight officer, led the others in, and Widhelm had to watch his attack theories from a raft. His main idea: the only way to escape anti-aircraft fire and yet make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Hornet's Sting | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

When questioned about the gas situation, Bolles replied that there is enough gas available for the crew launches "to row every Harvard oarsman bowlegged."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Coaches, Supply of Gas; Promise Crews Work | 8/19/1942 | See Source »

If misery loves company, young Boudreau can shake hands with John Bernard ("Hans") Lobert, the Phillies' new manager. Lobert is a big-nosed, bighearted, bowlegged little gaffer, dubbed Hans because in his early playing days he resembled and tried to imitate Immortal Hans Wagner. He has 39 years of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Behind the Eight Ball | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

In the first major tournament of the summer, at the plain but pleasant Berkeley Tennis Club in Orange, N.J., a little, bowlegged Ecuadorian named Francisco ("Pancho") Segura got to the quarterfinals, only to be beaten after putting up a stiff fight against Jack Kramer, sixth-ranking player in the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two-fisted South American | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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