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Have you met this character before? The Medal of Honor winner who can outdrink, outbrawl and outcuss any other man in the joint? Of course you have. Have you consorted with his unit before, an ill assortment of the flaky, the surly and the klutzy? Naturally. And do you just somehow know that before the picture is over the sergeant will weld them into a first-class fighting unit, in the process winning their unswerving loyalty and affection? You do just somehow know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Gunner Heartbreak Ridge | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...went down to see him not long ago, and took lunch with him. I think he is a pretty good executive, but a mighty poor talker. . . . He thinks he can convince the American people that I am a rascal. Well, I have always thought I could outcuss him, but I was too much of a gentleman to try. . . . And that, Mr. President, is enough for Mr. Ickes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forgive, But Don't Forget | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

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