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...tongue. Last week Dr. Quintanilla, now Mexico's Minister to Moscow, offered the English-speaking world his ideas. In a book, A Latin American Speaks, he showed that south of the Rio Grande there are men who can not only look over the wall of pride & preju dice to North America, but east and west to the problems of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Western Hemisphere League? | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...exactly 25 years George Kenney has carried in his fob pocket a small pair of wooden dice. They are the oracle he invariably consults before embarking on momentous projects. In the rocking, dusty sedan he plucked them out at random. They showed six-one, a natural. He faced them toward his aide, able, beady-eyed Captain Clarence "Kip" Chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: For the Honor of God | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

What a Week! That was only the beginning of a week when George Kenney's dice tumbled out sevens like a slot machine gone haywire, and U.S. airpower in the Southwest Pacific came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: For the Honor of God | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...dice have galloped now, and you pray you haven't turned up with an aceydency. Don't suffer under the illusion that you have a decision about the branch you are assigned to. You have a preference, but the only big sticks you carry are your test marks, and experience...

Author: By Pfc. ROBERT S. sturgls, | Title: CRIMEDITOR PASSES TIPS ON TRIALS OF ARMY LIFE | 1/5/1943 | See Source »

Below, the cabin had suddenly become a welter of men, clothes, dishes, gear. Water pouring down her hatch had hurled the skipper bodily out of the chartroom and into the galley. Around the cabin, like dice in a box, skittered 50-lb. chunks of lead ballast. A potbellied stove, torn from its moorings, crushed the ribs of Seaman James T. Watson. There were five other men below. They tried to lash things down and ladle the water out. The men on deck tried to clear the wreckage of the mizzenmast. The 3070 lurched wildly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Voyage of the 3070 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

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