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...rest! Unshoulder your musket! Poise your musket! Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming-pan! Charge your musket! Draw forth your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Put in your bullet and ram home! Present! Give fire! Dismount your musket! Uncock your match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your pan! Cast off your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Pentagon Jungle | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...escorted Duarte back to his luxurious apartment. He called in some pals, and until after midnight, sounds of laughing and drinking came from the rooms. Apparently, after the guests left, Juan Duarte concluded that it was time to check out. His valet found him in the morning with a bullet in his chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Death of a Salesman | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Linse stiffened his legs, thus held the car doors open. The thug sitting beside the driver pumped a bullet into Linse's legs; they relaxed and the door closed. Inside the Soviet zone, Paul and a major in the People's Police were waiting; they took Dr. Linse. Knobloch and his buddies got a six-week, all-expenses-paid vacation and a $250 bonus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Kidnaper | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...miles a day, pickled his face and hands in beef brine, and became a symbol of invincibility around the world. He fought from a crouch-the "Jeffries crouch"-his bullet head and meaty body low, his left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom. He beat Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, beat Fitzsimmons again, knocked out Jim Corbett twice. In 1905, at 29, he ran out of opponents and retired, wealthy and undefeated, to raise cattle and prize dogs on his ranch at Burbank, Calif, and enjoy the plaudits due a superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Jim | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...fire. Pop and the pilots decided to chance it. The chopper sat down 15 yards from the crashed plane and Major Cleeland made a run for it. Just as Pop was stretching out a beefy right hand to help him aboard, a Chinese hit the hand with a rifle bullet. Cleeland was hit in the leg, but Pop pulled him aboard with his good hand, and the rescue craft whirled safely away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Human Yo-Yo | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

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