Word: shave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called attention to an extremely small gravy mark on my own . . . From then on I never dared appear at a troop meeting without first giving my shoes such a gloss that they could have stood sentry-go at Buckingham Palace ... I went further. I began slathering myself with after-shave lotion, gargling with mouthwash, and even polishing my belt buckle before troop meetings...
...battles in the past 177 years-a record of almost continuous action that has led them literally from the shores of Tripoli to the Halls of Montezuma and on to the ridges of Korea. That record is sustained by the soul-shaking rigors of Marine training that turns a shave-headed boot into a dedicated fighting man whose faith is in his rifle and whose religion is his corps. And it is nourished by the legendary heroes of the Marines' past: Commandant William Ward Burrows, who in 1800 ordered one Marine shavetail to redress an insult from a naval...
...naval commanders is John Jervis, Lord St. Vincent, whom Mahan, in heartfelt admiration, could only call "a man of adamant." In these pages, King is exposed as a man of obsidian, consciously modeling himself on Jervis. He was flattered when friends said he was so tough that he must shave with a blowtorch, and gave him a four-foot crowbar to use as a toothpick...
...also come closer than any other sportswriter to taking Runyon's place. His favorite columnar character is Two Head Charlie, a thoughtful horse player, who talks like this: "You take a real ugly bum . . . with a face a monkey would be ashamed of. Let him get a shave and a haircut and meet a broad. What's the first thing the broad says to him, she says you look cute tonight . . . I admit I look like a kangaroo . . . But every broad I take out tells me I'm cute. Soon as a dame says that, I know...
There are only two alternatives: either shave down the School to a point where its scant endowment is adequate, or jettison it altogether...