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...always the same vow, same youth, same pure eyes, same caress, same revelation. But . . . never the same woman. The cards said I will meet her, but without recognizing her. Loving love ... 150 castles where we were going to love were not enough for me. I will have 100,000 more built tomorrow. (Woman's voice. gradually fading : Mon amour, mon amour, mon amour, mon amour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Drop Everything, Drop Dado | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Plan. By contrast, OPAdministrator Chester Bowles's whacking of N.A.M. for its drive to end price controls by Feb. 15 seemed almost a caress. The U.S., said Bowles, had saved $66 billion by not modifying the Price Control Act, as N.A.M. had suggested 18 months ago. N.A.M.'s demand that controls be lifted now, when inflation pressure is at its greatest, "is a risky, reckless, gambling policy which in all likelihood would produce a national disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: The Glacier Moves | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...three virtual nobodies, "typical Nazis," and of the collaborationist Russian, a "miserable weakling," who stand accused. It shows the hideous photographs and testimonials of the atrocities, or kinds of atrocity,* to which the accused plead guilty. Even more overwhelming are shots of bereaved women as they touch and caress the wounds and the frozen feet of their dead; or the restrained but colossal grief and passion for retribution in the faces of the men & women in the audience as they react to the German secret field policeman's admission that he is responsible for the deaths of "no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 4, 1945 | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...Navy should caress their brides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASOTELLITES | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

...fingered their roscoes uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes the rest most men required a night for, Perelman spent the balance dictating novels (Jo Bracegirdle's Ordeal, The Splendid Sinners), essays (Winnowings, The Anatomy of Gluttony, Turns with a Stomach), plays (Are You There, Wimperis?, Musclebound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Is Written | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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