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...trouble with the harness buckles. To say I'm scared is an understatement. I reach down to my right ankle and pull out my trench knife and stick it in the ground beside me. I think at least a knife is better than no weapon at all. Then I unsnap my harness, untangle myself, stand up and run to the hedgerow where I saw the chute go down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: What They Saw When They Landed | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...called “Make the Drunk Girl Take Pictures of Herself.” To the dismay of the referees, their contestant was drunk enough to play the game but perhaps a little too drunk to play it well. Though Garner was able to use one hand to unsnap her bra and the other to snap a nice pictorial record for her scrapbook, she lost her digital camera right next to her self-respect somewhere in the beer sodden recesses of the Fox basement. But on the bright side, Garner can now order prints of herself from the Kodak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gossip Guy | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

...pleasure of an architect imagining his last house adjoining his first. To Fryar, 21, the thought of just having shared a field with Franco Harris was stupefying. For Harris, these episodes of This Is Your Life do not let up. Lynn Swann, his old Steeler roommate, materialized to unsnap his shoulder pads for him, the way he used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Excellence by the Yard | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...Sony color TV, a stereo system with color transposer for both interior and exterior light shows, a "thermos faucet system" to supply a flow of beverages, a wireless telephone and "whisper" exhaust fans. Price: $32,000. If a desire to work should suddenly take hold, the relaxing executive can unsnap the 18-karat-gold clasps of a black crocodile attaché case ($25,000, from Dunhill), fitted with two gold pens, pencil, cardcase and lighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Ordering the Ultimate | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...enforcing the West Coast realignment to an intimidating trio of very mean thugs: Chicagoan Tony Spilotro, Brooklyn-born Mike Rizzitello and San Francisco's James Fratianno. "Animals," an FBI agent calls them. "Those guys are dangerous enough when the Mob keeps them in check. But when their keepers unsnap the leash, a lot of people are going to get hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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