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We Protestants have had a complete bellyful of these ridiculous, ludicrous events in Rome during the past few weeks. After those power-seekers in the Vatican finally reached a decision, it must have indeed been a bitter cup of gall for them to kiss the slipper of the man they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Mountaineer Ullman has stuck to the few known facts of Rimbaud's story, has imagined the unknown credibly enough. But in the end, he has after all unearthed only Claude Morel. Arthur Rimbaud and his bellyful of bitter dead still lie buried.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Damnedest of the Damned | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

The victory was virtually a one-man win. Against advice, Tory Leader John Diefenbaker correctly sensed that Canada had had a bellyful of self-assured government too long in power. The pain affected even Liberals with a subtle death wish: many wanted their own party cut down for the good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Upset | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

From Putney Bridge to Mortlake, the crowds that walled the winding Thames last week recognized the 103rd rowing of the Oxford-Cambridge University Boat Race as a very special race indeed. But more than any other man on the river, Roderick Carnegie, 24. the mop-haired Aussie pulling Oxford'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Aussie at Oxford | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

HONG KONG (140,000 Christians, 45,000 Protestants). This is the last citadel of British colonialism, and "for those who would understand what is behind the rest of Asia's anticolonial frenzy. Hong Kong is the place to get a bellyful of the original offense." But the British have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Asia's Protestants | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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