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...always quickly seen. In cold, rainy weather, padded black rags hide the scrawny arms and swollen bellies of China's hungry. It takes hot days when thousands shed their rags to see the effects of slow mass starvation. In villages like Chi Ho, a shady brown clump of mud. brick farmhouses twelve miles from dusty Hengyang, you see the famine. Two months ago, when there was still rice, Chi Ho had 140 inhabitants; now it has 80, the remainder having died or gone off to the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Quiet | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...good 20 feet tall, with nasty little red eyes and scraggly hair. . . . She carried Jack into the castle and set him to washing the giant's supper dishes from the night before [deep sigh']. And no hot water! As he was finishing, he heard a terrifying sound. Clump, clump, clump! Someone with size 36 shoes was coming down the stairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Throckmorton's Giant | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Lochinvar Foiled. Near Bogota, Colombia, down came a young man's airplane, out ran the rancher's daughter. Up from a clump of bushes rose Rancher Jose Pastarana, lassoed his eloping daughter. Away flew the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...After his drive hooked into a clump of bushes at Fresh Meadow and nestled against a fence, Nelson used the back of his putter with a left-handed swing, chipped the ball 100 ft. through shrubbery onto the fairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putter Trouble | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...clump of trees he sat stiffly and sullenly in the front seat of a U.S. jeep-and acted out his version of how a German general should meet defeat. He refused to talk to anybody below his rank. Beside him sat a G.I. driver, staring ahead and nonchalantly popping his gum. Back of him sat one of his captors, a young lieutenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nazi in Defeat | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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