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...office of Chief of the Imperial General Staff. He was a part of Hore-Belisha's "rejuvenation" of the army. A big man with a square face, whose hats generally looked too small for him, he was known to his men as the "Fat Boy." Actually muscular and fit as a fiddle, he expected his subordinates to keep the same way, would often give an aide a strenuous tour of duty just to get the flesh off him. Mounted on a white charger, Gort was a heroic figure as Commander in Chief of the British Army on the disastrous...
...puffs as our pilot twisted, turned, sideslipped. . . . Someone shouted: 'There he is, for God's sake, open fire.' A machine gun started clicking and shell cases flew all over the place. I looked at Jorgensen [the pilot] and thought he was hit, but it was only muscular contraction as bullets whizzed past. One of the gunners shouted that he had knocked down a Messerschmitt and Frost [a gunner] got a second one. Over the interphone I heard Frost tell Jorgensen: 'I got him, sir. There he goes on fire...
...allows the patient to walk gently on his broken leg in about two weeks; to put his whole weight on it, without cane or crutch, in three weeks. > Thus it prevents the muscular atrophy and stiffening of the joints which commonly result from a plaster cast...
...Charlie Wilson is muscular ruddy, carries his six-foot frame like an infantry major. He likes golf, deep-sea fishing, has seldom missed a big prize fight and has taken on some pretty good men himself in gymnasium rings. But mostly he just works...
...pants ignominiously on barbed wire in his first battle, got a bullet through his hat and a lifelong case of hero worship. Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believes in strong talk and the Big Stick. Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believes in the strenuous life; at 68, he adheres to a muscular regimen that would kill many a younger...