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...China we have made the fatal mistake every soldier dreads: underestimating the enemy. If we had dreamed that the Communists could take China, we would have swallowed Chiang Kaishek, horns, cloven hooves and all-if that was the way we felt about him. Personally I have great respect for Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Mountains: Mountains | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...midnight dropped down from a beam and snuggled close. The devil worked overtime; he was described by one hysteric as "a short and black man-a Wretch no taller than an ordinary Walking Staff ... he wore a high crowned hat with straight hair; and he had one Cloven Foot." Another accuser casually referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ye Old Boy | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Cloven Hoof. In Port Jervis, N.Y., Motorcyclist Clark Ponnell complained that a deer crashed into him, rode the handlebars for 150 feet before Ponnell landed dazed on the highway, "and then the deer walked over and kicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Communists held their last big rally before the ancient Church of Saint John Lateran. From a ten-ton truck decorated with cardboard doves of peace, Palmiro Togliatti spoke to 100,000 Romans. Said he: Alcide de Gasperi had called him a cloven-hoofed man, and he had a good mind to take off his shoe to show that this was a lie. "But it is better to put hobnails in the shoe and kick De Gasperi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Victory | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...women and children and bullocks and groaning carts were plodding eastward and westward beneath the autumn skies and nights of the cloven Punjab; past unharvested fields, past empty villages and eviscerated villages and villages which resemble rained-out brush fires. Huge, forlorn concentrations of Sikhs and Hindus labored forward to leave the West Punjab forever. On one day last week, columns No. 8 and 9 moved across the famous Balloki headworks between Amritsar and Lahore and passed into the Indian Dominion; not far behind, foot columns No. 10, 11 and 12 lumbered steadfastly eastward. Carefully feeling its way around Amritsar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA-PAKISTAN: The Trial of Kali | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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