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...Nichevo is a bland answer to anything. How are you getting along? O.K. (Nichevo). What's cooking? Nothing. (Nichevo}. It can also mean "Every thing's fine," and "What does it matter?" It is not a definite negative or a definite affirmative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Philosophic General Hsiung, who at 50 has the bland face of a schoolboy, departed with his usual smile, said only that he and Franklin Roosevelt had discussed the "Pacific situation." Was it true that he was being recalled because of dissatisfaction with United Nations cooperation and the trickle of Lend-Lease aid? The General replied tactfully: "We should never be satisfied unless our enemy is completely defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disunited Nations | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...Western press scarcely noticed that presently big, bland Richard Kidston Law, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, rose in the House of Commons to say that Britain's intentions did not include surrendering Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bitter Tea | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...Swiss reporters turned bland, unimpressed faces toward this routine announcement. Then Dr. Schmidt leaned his plump, manicured hands flat on the heavy table. "There will be," he said viciously, "no place for such editors in the new Europe. We will make short shift of them. Perhaps they will find their future home in the steppes of Asia, or maybe it would be best simply to send them off into the Great Beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Wir Machen Nicht Mit | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...seven-foot, simian, pink alabaster Adam, sometimes referred to as "a biologist's nightmare" or "three tons of ugliness." An Australian gold miner bought Adam for $35,000. For like Epstein notoriety, Epstein prices have soared steadily upward. In each esthetic crisis Sculptor Epstein has remained cosmically bland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Epstein Epic | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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