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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Example. As the 5-ft.-10-in. "runt" in a family of six-footers, Ted Timberlake took plenty of lumps growing up. Pat was his special idol in athletics. Because Pat had been a javelin thrower, Ted manfully tossed the steel-tipped spear around. Pat had been a star blocking back. Ted played one season, lost another with injuries, wound up warming the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Three Brothers, Three Stars | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Baruch always operated alone, always held high his reputation for personal integrity. Twice unfriendly Congressional committees tried to spear him; each time he emerged without a scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: U.S. At War, Jun. 28, 1943 | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Some 200,000 Nagas live in an area of about 4,000 sq. mi. They live a communal existence, share food and work (although males usually retire at the age of eight and thereafter devote themselves to mastering and using the spear, crossbow and dah, a wicked knife). They are capable though casual farmers. Some raise pigs for trade, but for eating they prefer the dog, which is bred for the Naga table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASES: Kehoe of the Head-hunters | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...lesson, too. His example was Ritchie's failure before Tobruk: a massed and disastrous assault by British tanks without infantry support. (Said one American observer: "He sent the backfield into the game but kept the line on the bench.") At El Alamein it was different. Montgomery's spear head of armor burst through a breach made by artillery and infantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Task Forces for the Army | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...knew what had actually been planned and what had been done. Very possibly there had never been a plan for him to break through to the sea. Last week his strength was identified as one armored and three infantry divisions, and that would certainly have been a slim spear to throw at the coast. But George Patton must have had passing thoughts of an opportunity missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Fight Against the Champ | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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