Word: butts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have made an experiment," wrote a French infantry sergeant from the trenches of World War I. "Two days ago I pinched from an enemy a Mauser rifle. Its unwieldy shape swamped me with a powerful image of brutality. I broke the butt off, and with my knife I carved a gentler order of feeling, a mother and child." A few days later, on the afternoon of June 5, 1915, an other German weapon put a bullet through the Frenchman's head. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, not yet 24, was dead...
...Communists slipped through the perimeter beyond the U.S. compound, but four were gunned down. One managed to reach the mess hall and flip in a hand grenade. Special Forces Sergeant Horace Young, 34, who was already wounded in the leg, tried to bat the grenade away with his rifle butt. It exploded, tearing his arm to ribbons. Streaming blood, he staggered into the storeroom with the only weapon left to him: his Special Forces knife. There he found the Viet Cong grenadier, stabbed him and died. When Young's body was found hunched in the corner of the storeroom...
...plane flipped over and I was flying upside down. I flew about three-fourths of a mile that way. Then I reached down and pulled the seat handles, which flipped off the canopy. Then I groped until I found the ejection handles. I was still pulling them when the butt-snapper -that's a canvas that snaps taut and flips you clear-under my seat propelled me out into the air. Three swift jolts, and I was floating down in my parachute. Since I had nothing else to do, I went through the procedure I'd been taught...
...role that, without strain fits him like an old pair of pants. In fact he wears a pair of his own on stage, marvelously purple dungarees that cost him 12? in Chinatown. Like Oscar in the play, Matthau is a natural-born lounger, poker fan and sports butt...
...mime who with the late Oliver Hardy made some 300 of Hollywood's slaphappiest movies in the 1920s, '30s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. A onetime London music hall comic, Laurel was the brain behind the gags and the on-screen butt of them all, the watery-eyed, squeaky-voiced noodlehead who caught Jean Harlow's dress in a car door in Double Whoopee and absorbed the custard pies in The Battle of the Century, spilled the paint, upset the ladders and destroyed the autos, all of which invariably earned...