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...muddy foxhole in central Korea crouched battlewise Colonel William Harris, commander of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. The colonel was unshaven and bone tired; his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep. A sodden G.I. blanket around his shoulders inadequately shielded him from the pouring rain. "This," said the colonel, "is the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: On the Camel's Head | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...drunken sailors into freighter crews. Wenzel's young face and smooth muscles soften Milly's heart; as she liquors up a crew for a wretched guano ship, she decides to save him for herself. But Wenzel refuses the favor and takes his place with his tricked and sodden buddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Before Stalingrad | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...long been obvious that on Saturdays in Soldiers Field, some of the strongest and most determined defense has been seen after the final horn ending the football game. At first, it is defense by authority (see below) and this is often enough to turn away the sodden hordes of invaders from at least one of the HAA's goalposts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defenders of the Goalposts | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

...young West German republic had made a heartening display of nerve. Like their "Youth Rally" in Berlin last Whitsun, the Communists' "resistance day" was a sodden fizzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: No Nonsense | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Disjointed Tale. The tennis balls were human heads. It was quickly evident that there were hundreds of them in patches hidden by fog. There were rafts and makeshift rafts on which humans, crying in thin voices, clustered like sodden bees. The rescue vessels began pulling them aboard, and moving blindly on with whistles braying in eerie chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Rescue in the Fog | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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