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...behind the walls of the Kremlin. Would the cat in the Kremlin jump again? If he did, where and how would he strike? Or could he again be made to purr benignly in the role that had persuaded a lot of Americans (who would now like to bite their tongues off) to call him, fondly, Uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The Cat in the Kremlin | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Lilibet, says Crawfie, was "quick with her left hook," and Margaret was "known to bite on occasions." The result: "a hand bearing the royal teeth marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Confessions of Crawfie | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...Bite. In Eastbourne, England, police warned the public against a pickpocket who squirts toothpaste on his victims' clothing, then niches their wallets while helping them wipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 3, 1950 | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...flatlands of Kansas, deep-tanned men, with wheat dust pasted to their faces, pushed the clattering combines northward in the annual harvest of winter wheat. The Shorthorns and Herefords lumbered lazily across the Great Plains; 13 million new beef calves bellowed at the smoky bite of the branding iron. Down South, in the weeks before the cotton bloomed white, stretching like a giant snowdrift from North Carolina through Texas, there were watermelons and peaches to be picked, small grain crops to be brought in, tobacco to be topped and suckered, beef and dairy cattle to be tended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Plague of Plenty | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...Good Bite. Acheson's report was hopeful, educational, and not very startling. The free West was facing the Russians with a "quiet, practical" unity. It had arrived at an understanding of "immense significance": an agreement on both the military and economic requirements of self-defense. None of the eleven Foreign Ministers whom he had met had any fear of immediate war-although all agreed there could be no weakening in the face of ponderous Russian pressure (later in the week, Acheson told a Senate committee that the cost of military aid to Europe would probably rise, not decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Animal Fair | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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