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...That dirty, rotten son of a beep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Sharks | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Recorded end to end, all of the gags about old British movies on U.S. television would be no more than a beep compared to the clamor going on last week about U.S. shows on British TV. "Is BBC short of British ideas?" screamed London's weekly The People. "The latest American import [the Phil Silvers Show] plunged us into the heart of U.S. Army life, and as the series is here to stay, we've just got to get used to the slang. A pity the B (for British) BC can't devise a British series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Invasion by Film | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...undresses behind a bush. He watches. So does the camera. Either the bush has too little or Sophia has too much upholstery. Moments later she and the driver are frolicking in the sand together, and as his blood mounts-beep! The emergency horn informs him that her two confederates are stealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...this? He had, without Harry Truman's knowledge, made a recording of the two presidential phone calls. There was nothing wrong about that, he insisted hurriedly (even though the Federal Communications Commission bans as illegal any recording device that doesn't give off a tell-tale beep every 15 seconds). The Senate sergeant at arms had installed the recorders, lots of Senators used them, and "it has been a great help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moralists at Work | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...Wakefield could no longer be distinguished within her shroud of smoke and steam. But messages beep-beeping from the sparks' cabins aboard the cruiser and the destroyers told the story. "The engines are still okay. Fire hasn't got below B deck. The captain (Coast Guard Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury) thinks it will burn out the superstructure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - NAVY: Of Undetermined Origin | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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