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...throughout, and soon enough the boards arrived and the games commenced. There was something squirrelly about the event -- an American flag snapping above terrain that has been under a U.S. trade embargo since 1975 -- but then squirrelly is a feeling Vietnam gives you these days. Out yonder was a gunless gunboat, its Vietnamese colors set off against a red gob of sun. In the bar was flat, skunky-tasting beer that had sat in the heat for a year, though the hapless representative of San Miguel, a Filipino brewery, insisted that he had accompanied 70,000 fresh cases into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SURFING INTO THE MELANCHOLY PAST | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...with saffron scarves) but the men in mufti drilled smartly, proved that their secret military training in past years is no myth. Since most Free Staters firmly believe that the Republican Army has large secret stocks of arms, there was natural Irish disappointment when the army chose to parade gunless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: King Doesn't Care? | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...motored ten miles to a backwoods cabin where a Dr. W. B. Hodge, one Clyde Moorehead and one Wirt Hatcher, practiced gunners, awaited him with four setter dogs. The President patted the dogs, loaded his gun, marched into the scrub-oak and broom-sage. Hosts, guides and detectives followed, gunless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Skunked | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...citizen lambasted the gunless gunman, had him jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Chicago | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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