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...There was only one way out for you, to sentence me without trial. . . . The Germans must be very exacting masters. Isn't it your Minister of Justice who said: 'They drive us by kicks in the ass.' . . . I leave you with these words: 'I will be waiting for you at the downfall of the forces of the axe.' It is the most marvelous revenge and also the only reparation that a Frenchman may desire who up to his last breath had only one religion-that of his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Testament | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...purple-faced, yellow-whiskered, longtailed monkey. **A South African wild ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wanderoo v. Relic | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...that it was not so in the past, before the French came to rule, when Islam's mothers and daughters lived dutifully within their walled courtyards. Everywhere in the ancient capital jealous men gathered and listened. Then angry groups marched down the Street Called Straight, surged by the ass and spice markets, the tombs of Saladin and Fatima, the places where Ananias lived and St. Paul dropped down the wall in a basket. They bore rifles, revolvers, axes, sticks & stones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Dance of the Unveiled | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...best assistant, the Germans' worst flyer. "Tally ho!" they yelled when they spotted him. "Here comes Müller's bunch!" As they went after the Messerschmitts, they could hear the Nazi commander bellowing angry curses over the inter-plane radio: "Müller, verdammter Esel! [damn ass!]. . . . Müller Menschenskind! [man alive!]. . . . Müller, Sie Trottel! [you dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: The Pranging of Muller | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...prodigy itself looks more like a horse than a mule. Recording cases of fertile mules, the U.S. Department of Agriculture brooks no superficiality, carries the question back to basic grounds. It cautions that mules themselves are a curiosity-"in the sense that the crossing of the horse and the ass is not one of nature's ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natal Nativity | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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