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About this time Frank Agamonte began dragging Barbara Bungay around the tower by her long golden tresses. We knew immediately she was drunk by the way she threw her ams about and flailed her legs. After a while Frank got tired, and let Barbara go. She started to crawl toward the kitchen. We let her go. Joe by this time was running around being the life of the party by trying to break chairs over Gretchen Flyspec's head. Just then Gretchen got a brilliant idea. We all jumped Joe and put him under the coach. We then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 7/19/1951 | See Source »

...recuperating from the same kind of Darkness-at-Noon proceeding, put his finger on the probable Czech motive for the Oatis conviction. "They snatch an American citizen," said Vogeler, "and hold him prisoner until our State Department coughs up ransom . . . We are the greatest country and we continue to crawl." To get Vogeler out of jail, the U.S. went along with the Communists' snatch & ransom plot, forked over several million dollars worth of industrial concessions to the Hungarian government. What ransom do the Czechs want? Among the guesses is that they want the U.S. to shut up Radio Free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Kangaroo Court | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...President expresses pride in the "sound common sense" of her girls, and believes that it is the liberal, no-specific-career education of the institution that molds the Wellesley character. But the Wellesley social leader does not crawl out of a general education book. Probably the only words used more frequently than "Harvard" and "hairdo" on the campus are "tradition and honor," "honor and tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley: the Girl Behind the Teapot | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

...only a beginning. It took the general's motorcade two hours to crawl 14 miles through the yelling crowds, and he got to his suite in the St. Francis Hotel only by the desperate efforts of a flying wedge of cops-75,000 surging, shouting, fainting people had jammed all the streets and the square in front of the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hero's Welcome | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...other. The terror scorned the traditional Confucian concept of decent human relationship. Older people, heretofore respected for their years, were led through streets to prisons or to execution, and on the way Communist youth spat at them. In one Kwangtung province town a grey-haired man was forced to crawl on his knees, kowtow to groups of Red workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mass Slaughter | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

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