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Freedom & Socialism. The complex machinery over which Morrison presides begins to creak-significantly-at the next step in the nationalization process. When socialist planning is translated into parliamentary program, it raises the key question: can socialism and democracy exist together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dull Year of Hope | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Germans fought back savagely with heavy coast-defense guns, field artillery and multiple-barreled Nebelwerfers, whose incendiary rocket projectiles sail through the air with an unearthly noise, described by N.Y. Timesman Harold Denny as "something like a titanic horse whinnying, or a gigantic aching creak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Drive to The Port | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Every evening in Washington, D.C. khaki-clad men, unsteady on their crutches, struggle up a hill leafy with June. Other wounded soldiers, in dark red trousers and jumpers over their pajamas, creak along in wheel chairs pushed by white-uniformed nurses. The slow parade's destination is the grey stone chapel of the Army's Walter Reed Hospital. The wounded men go there to pray for the success of the invasion of Europe and for an early peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Least I Can Do ... | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...walked beside of Grandpa a-holdin to his hand. Many sang songs as we walked down the mountain, a mountain so steep that it made the knees creak to hold us back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lonesome Mountain | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Capricornia begins at the end of the 19th Century, when the Northwest's population was mostly crocodiles, devil crabs, creak-winged jabirus and colored aborigines. Pioneers from South Australia pushed up into a half million square miles drenched to swamp by the wet season, parched to desert by the dry. They were there to stay. When the defeated Larrapunas persisted in guerrilla tactics, the settlers gave them gifts of flour spiced with arsenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Scarlet Plains | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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