There was a sweetness in his personality, a vulnerability, although - either at school or in the army - he had acquired an abruptness and a tendency to sit or stand bolt upright.
For one thing, he never met Dorothy Lamour, and for another, the captain of his ship was completely bonkers, who caused his crewmen to stand bolt upright and stationary for four-hour stretches, staring lamely into the Pacific Ocean in case a post-war Japanese midget submarine was still lurking about.
But Axel stands bolt upright and admits: "My life was utter chaos .Not any more.
"It's a mistake to do this," he told Mr. Muhammad, who stood bolt upright as he listened intently.
A tiny figure, she stands bolt upright, staring out blankly, as though she is a puppet controlled by her music.
More than six feet tall, he is rail-thin and stands bolt upright; the only undisciplined thing about him is a thatch of white hair so dense that it appears to have held his comb to a draw.
— Colton Harris-Moore, the "Barefoot Bandit," stood bolt upright in orange jail garb before Judge Vicki I. Churchill in the small courtroom here on Friday and was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison.
Hitting A slides Walker into cover, and moving the thumbstick changes his position while he hugs the wall, but the slightest movement away from cover and Walker stands bolt upright.
It was no accident that he ditched the Presidential limousine for his ceremonial parade up the Champs-Élysées on Sunday, and, instead, stood bolt upright in an open-topped military jeep — à la Charles de Gaulle.
As the jury's 55-year-old foreman, a retired Navy pilot, announced the guilty verdicts before the silent courtroom, Mr. Muhammad stood bolt upright, stared straight ahead and maintained the same stone-faced pose he had struck throughout the trial.
He still carries the traits of his National Service - a tall, elegant man, he stands bolt upright - and joined the territorial army, rising to commanding officer with the Honourable Artillery Company, which was set up in the 16th century, before the City had a police force.
