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Tiger was a mere wisp of a man, but he had no intention of taking a ribbing from some Ivy League Privates. So he got mean and wrathful and sent some of the boys to see the mess sergeant because their beds were a quarter of an inch from the crack in the floor that stood as the great divide. Two nights later we ate Tiger. Not literally, of course, but it was delicious. In the midst of a black and tortured night march, we broke into a sombre dirge. "Hold that Tiger, rrrrrrooomph, hold that Tiger, rrrrromph. The Tiger...

Author: By Field Artillery, | Title: GI COLLEGE MAN GAZES UPON GOLDBRICKING AT FORT BRAGG | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

...This advertising version of an American dogface sprawls comfortably against a clean green jungle background. Not a wisp of whisker mars his healthy smiling puss. There's a press in his pants. And for gosh sakes, his shoes are shined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Spanking-of-the-Week | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...well-organized opposition, yes. The engineers with tank traps did the job of slowing, but the star of the action last week-as in the whole two previous months of maneuvers-was the Second Army's tank destroyer battalion. The Cumberland's will-o'-the-wisp struck, destroyed, disappeared and struck again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Lessons of the Cumberland | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...gongs, while the Moslems' worship of Allah is austere and silent and includes a bit of healthy physical exercise. The Moslem is circumcised, while the Hindu is not; the Moslem clips his mustache in a certain way, while the Hindu does not. The Hindu wears a wisp of long hair on the top of his head; if he is of high caste, he adorns himself with the 'sacred thread' and a mark on his head; the followers of the Prophet wisely dispense with these accretions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: At Stake: A New World | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...night, in the utter blackout, people stay in their homes, listening to the endlessly patrolling planes of an Army & Navy grimly determined never again to be caught off guard. By day they scan the blue distance, watch each wisp of smoke that trails along the horizon, hoping it brings news from the U.S.-not from Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suspense | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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