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Methods of ambush are important. A wire cable strung across a road at an angle will slide a motorcycle off into the ditch, where the cyclist can be slugged and searched. "Messages may be glued to the soles of the feet. Comb the hair; look between the toes." All kinds of decoys may be used to stop cyclists and staff cars or to make them swerve and crash: a couple of baby carriages covered with sacking, a pair of old auto headlamps, operated on batteries, set in the middle of the road. "To attract the closest attention of enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: You, Too, May Be A Guerrilla | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Personnel Department B's special function was "to comb the world for potential 'Quislings.' " Goebbels, with his fat dossiers on the vulnerabilities of all foreign notables, believed that treason was a surer method than revolution. In Belgium, for instance, Rosenberg's Degrelle movement failed; but Personnel Department B obtained the services of Henri de Man, with his influence over Leopold; and Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Improbabilities | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Manhattan last week a tall, lean, 67-year-old Scotsman named R(obert) McCulloch Dick called at the National City Bank, picked up a big bundle of newspapers, hurried to his hotel to comb them word by word. After a sojourn in London he was catching up on five months' back reading of his own paper, the weekly Philippines Free Press. Presently, reading one of his dispatches from London, he was engulfed by gloom because his paper had gone to pot-he had found a typographical error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Island Editor | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...give the new Army energy and brains, to carry out Chief of Staff George C. Marshall's promise to fit men to the jobs, get younger executives, comb the cobs out of the Army's top commands-these were the reasons for shifting 26 generals last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Renaissance at the Top | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...Actual blackmail for political ends by gathering discreditable information about the public and private lives of notables. "It is perfectly true that the Nazi political services comb the gossip columns . . . and a sterling anti-Nazi gossiper like Walter Winchell would probably be horrified if he knew the strategic uses to which some of his little scoops might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Enemy on U.S. Nerves | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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