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Something snapped inside Trooper Tedbury. He flashed his unsheathed sword down from the vertical "Carry Sword" position, pointed it straight at Guide Reeves's throat and shouted over his chin strap: "You are a liar. Move on!" The 34 Americans retreated in disorder, and Guide Reeves found himself speechless...
Today we have specialists in various aspects of sex as well as those who cull a little from each. There are undressing specialists who give us an accounting of every several button, strap, and bow, layer by layer, garment by garment. James M. Cain established the now large school of clothes-ripping technicians, who have shredded enough lingerie to clothe the poor of the world. James Jones contributed shorts-shucking, which follows halter-dropping in sequence. There are specialists in the texture and surface temperature of the body, ranging in the first case from marble to velvet; in the second...
...business was not alarmed, neither was the U.S. public, though never had a stumbling economy been so widely discussed or so vigilantly watched. While the recessions of 1949 and 1954 went largely unnoticed, this time it was Topic A from club car to subway strap. It spawned some wry gags, such as the Recession Cocktail...
...Strait in the Solomon Islands. Came the cry "Ship at 2 o'clock"-and in the next instant a Japanese destroyer knifed through the PT boat, hurling Skipper Kennedy to the deck and injuring his back. Expert Swimmer Kennedy saved one of his wounded crewmen by holding a strap of the man's Mae West in his teeth and towing him three miles to a small island. During the next six days, according to his Navy and Marine Corps Medal citation, Kennedy "succeeded in getting his crew ashore and, after swimming many hours attempting to secure food...
...rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where he had spent the summer. But he pulled on an ill-fitting tank of compressed air, a face mask with a broken strap, and stepped into the water. The mask leaked, and the water was so muddy that he "couldn't see the glass in front of my face." But on the sixth dive, groping through three feet of mud on the bottom, his hand touched the dead boy's leg. Minutes later...