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...taking sentries, advises Mr. Levy, the back is the best approach. If that is not possible, the guerrilla covers the sentry with his revolver, steps on his foot, unbuttons his tunic and jerks it down over his arms to lock them. "You may slap his ears with the revolver barrel, to intimidate him. . . . You should also drop his trousers to lock his feet...
...spiritual character he entered a monastery in 1920, donned tunic, girdle, scapular, hood and mantle, began to study the Carmelite specialty, mystical theology. Eventually he became head of the order in all France...
...Japanese staff officers' work has been of a high order." Outside. In battle dress a Japanese soldier looks like a badly wrapped brown paper package. His legs are too short, his pants are baggy, his leggings droop, his tunic is loose, his kit askew. He wears muddy leather shoes. He may have on a sweater or messy fatigue clothes...
...even bigger part fell vacant -Die Walküre's Brünnhilde. Helen Traubel, herself pinch-hitting for Kirsten Flagstad (immured in Norway for the duration), took cold. Astrid Varnay found herself dressed up again ; this time in a red wig, a hand-me-down cuirass and tunic of one of the Valkyrie maids, a man's heavy helmet. Again the debutasters were amazed...
...spot he loved best was the place where he had so often shown himself, like any citizen in his rough tunic, his pants tucked into his boots, before the millions-on Lenin's tomb in the Red Square. So one of the clearest hints of Stalin's emotion and Moscow's peril last week was the closing of the tomb. Millions of Russians had made the pilgrimage to this shrine. Its closing suggested that Communism's holy relic, the remains of Lenin, had been sent away from the city...