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...nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish of dripping water." It was still dark when they stopped to rest at "a heap of stones . . . shown on the map as a farmhouse . . . many miles from any road or track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men and Mountain | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...head. I thought I would cry out: 'May Great Imperial Japan live forever!' in so loud a voice that the enemy would hear me, and then press the trigger. But the feel of the cold steel made me shudder, and I hastily replaced the weapon in my holster. I wanted to live on as long as I could. Thoughts of home brought tears to my eyes, and I shut them and prayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How Japs Fight | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...Africa looks like a fat pistol holster, and about where the lower extremity of the butt would nestle lies the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone. This little nook of Empire has suddenly become important-because of its only port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Africa's Hong Kong | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...Wyoming," is a Western, fundamentally like all other Westerns past, present, and future. The film, however, has some distinguishing features. Wallace Beery shambles through the plot with his hand on his holster and the vaguely reproachful mien of a wounded rhinoceros. Even his romance muscle-woman Marjoric Main smacks of mating season in Tanganika. And few actors in Hollywood have sheer primitivism down to such a fine art as Wallace Beery. Another distinguishing feature of the picture is the magnificent landscapes; in fact, the upper part of the screen is far wilder and woolier than the action in the foreground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

...dickens do you think you are doing here?' but of course he didn't understand me. Then I noticed that he had a revolver and by pointing indicated that I wanted it. He handed it over at once but I did not take it out of the holster nor did I threaten him with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Storm Warnings | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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