Word: mayhemic
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...this most attention has to be put on the abdominal muscles, Samborski, who is Director of Intramural Athletics, explained. "All of us use our legs and arms every day, but it's flabby stomach muscles that we have to work on." Result: a marked affection for gutstraining, leg-raising mayhem and belly grinds...
...were still far from ready for combat. Their officers sent them slogging on forced marches through the hills of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, put them on iron rations, made them practice under actual gunfire. Booted parachute troops dropped from planes. Rangers practiced landing assaults and commando-style mayhem. A few of them went with the Canadians to Dieppe...
Production Tsar Nelson made it clear that he wanted no part of this helping-hand job for WPB, which had troubles enough already with war production. What he wanted for himself was a clear conscience when and if he has to commit mayhem on small business to take over its equipment and manpower. The U.S. has over 2,750,000 small businesses (fewer than 100 employes) with a total payroll of more than 8,350,000 people. Though only 169,000 are manufacturers, they all consume manpower-and manpower in the long run may well become the most compelling...
...this week the news held all but one of these editors at their desks -while TIME'S correspondents doubled for them on the scene of action- -Ragsdale out in the Western training camps, John Durant up in Concord, Mass., where teetotaler Yank Levy. Britain's No. 2 mayhem expert, is teaching guerrilla warfare to the State Guard (see p. 46) -and Sam Lyons down at Camp Lee, Va., where the Army is training its quartermaster corps to fight as well as it figures...
...might be invaded-which means anyone now alive-would do well to read "Yank" Levy's Guerrilla Warfare-for instructions on how to harass invaders. Author Levy, 44, a Canadian-born soldier of fortune, now instructor of British Home Guards, has compiled a civilian's manual of mayhem and informal murder. His book is a brief, businesslike discussion of contemporary strategy, tactics and tricks for people caught in an invasion, with dozens of helpful hints on hamstringing, backstabbing, sniping and other dust-biting dodges. Author Levy urges householders to organize right away, study the neighborhood topography, spend...