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...Westerners. New York Times Correspondent Cy Sulzberger filed a candid impression of the country: "Millions of intelligent beings living within the Soviet bloc have been . . . mesmerized by their monolithic propaganda machine . . . The average political leader . . . pretends to regard our statements ... as what the Russians call Klyukva ... in connotation . . . 'boloney.' 'Boloney' to date is regrettably what a good deal of the phraseology here sounds like to Western ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Holes in the Curtain | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...dockworker tore the false bottom out. White reached into the trunk and pulled out 8 Ibs. of fine Mettwurst, a German pork boloney, homemade by Bohling's relatives. White ripped the sausages to shreds, looking for dope or diamonds. There was only Mettwurst. The Department of Agriculture man confiscated it all pursuant to Bureau of Animal Industry Order No. 373, which forbids the importing of uncertified meat from countries infested with foot-and-mouth disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Wurst Tragedy | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...arms--and then returns to the comically ugly reality. The second parodies a cocktail party: 30 overdressed men and women wiggle about inside an invisible (and nonexistent) wall in the center of the stage, waving long-stemmed glasses, nodding their heads furiously, and shouting in fearful chorus, "Yatata, yatata, boloney, mismosh, rubbish, yatata." The third impressionist scene is "Allegro" itself: the title song, a freudian ballet, and the gyrations of the projected backdrop displaying the tempo of modern life--allegro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allegro | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Corporal George H. Benson: "Everybody else is and we think lots about it. This waiting is killing-no boloney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Just Before the Battle | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...realism and fantasy seldom mix even in the Amazon jungle. Result: the plight of the miniature actors, dodging for their lives behind a huge can of pork & beans, peering up at a towering rooster or laboriously sawing themselves slices of gargantuan boloney, is less frightening than funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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