Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he took command of the destroyer Mugford in 1939, he trained its gunners to razor fineness, set a new destroyer shooting record, was marked as a great commander by the time he went back into the Bureau of Ordnance a year later. It was 1943 before he got back to sea duty. Then things began to happen...
...they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon garrotes made from stolen glider towropes (deemed more efficient for quiet strangulation than piano wire) and knives almost as thin as hatpins, for penetration of an enemy head just below the ear. One brave demonstrated the razor sharpness of his machete by clipping tough field grass with lazy swings. Another, carrying steel knuckles crested with sharp spikes, gave the points a final affectionate polishing with emery cloth as he waited for the take-off for France. Though the official maximum weight for a 24-ft. chute...
...picture of the advance-zone barbershop with its witty price list (TIME, May 8) you attempt to interpret G.I. humor, with I wonder what results. The barber probably thought his manicure "for officers only" was just as funny as the one about awarding the Purple Heart for his razor nicks...
...crew came in during the broadcast, having located the crew of a plane lost in the jungle. Many kinds of supplies are parachuted to lost crews: red blankets and junk jewelry for barter with the natives; playing cards and cribbage boards; Bibles, mess kits, boots, mountain rations, chewing gum, razor blades, ciga-rets, soap, canned beer...
Perhaps 20 years ago Maugham could not have written about either mysticism or Americans with quite so straight a face. For all his life Maugham has endeavored to write skillfully and never in passion. Now age and art have refined his feelings to the vanishing point. The Razor's Edge is the crowning triumph of that utterly dispassionate virtuosity to which he has always aspired-a persuasive as well as an entertaining book, by a man of 70 who is still "of the earth, earthy," about a young man who has found a faith...