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...table and use the formula "Darf ich bitten?" Then, do not ask her name (this is very rude), but, after two or three dances politely inquire "Darf ich 'du' sagan?", to which, if you've been at all cool about it, she will smile and answer "Du kannst mich aber Ilse nennen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New York Guide | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Lemp fired four torpedoes. One hit. It took 112 lives, including 16 children and 69 women, some of whom jumped to suicide when their children drowned. From Athenia's SOS, Lemp learned his victim's name. "So eine Schweinerei!" he exploded: "Warum fährt der aber auch abgeblendet?" (What a mess! But why was she blacked out?) The British called it murder. Goebbels screamed that the villain Churchill had ordered Athenia sunk by British forces, to make a new Lusitania incident and drag the U.S. again into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trident of Death | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Inevitably he nuzzles at puppy love. The girl Wanda has "elfin-upslanting eyes" and "wheaten lashes," and when Tone is near, she deep-breathes like "a deer chased by dogs." An older woman, a German, finally initiates Tone in the mysteries of sex ("Aber Gott . . . you are so young'1). Meanwhile Author Boles unravels a skein of subplots. Readers will find themselves aging rather more rapidly than Tone, who keeps himself in shape by doing knee-bends in moments of crisis and repeating that everything is "mighty very fine." The same cannot be said of Author Boles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...sent no reply. The news leaked out to Kenya's white settlers, and many of them denounced Operation China as "appeasement" and "a disgrace." But at last the Mau Mau answered, and most of their replies were favorable. A dozen terrorist '"generals" from Mt. Kenya and the Aber-dares agreed with China that the "white elders and the elders of the forest must meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Massacre at Gathuini | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Also, Cincinnati (Nuxhall) 5, Chicago (A) (Trucks) 3; Chicago (N) (Church) 8, Baltimore (Turley) 2; Philadelphia (A) (Trice) 7, Pittsburgh (Law) 5; and Washington (Naranjo) 10, Detroit (Aber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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