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...been hired from the New Orleans Item largely because he had written more than 50 editorials urging Hawaiian statehood. With just a fraction of a percentage point over 50% of the stock then at his command, Twigg-Smith confronted his uncle and advised him to step down. A dumbstruck Lorrin P. Thurston took his nephew to court, but the suit was dismissed. In revenge, Thurston sold as much stock as he could to Copley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: A Century of Stubbornness | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

Slowly hope is lost; suddenly grace is given. In the bottom of a barrel sunk in the sand, he finds several inches of clear water. Water in this blazing waste! He is dumbstruck. By what miracle could a common tub draw water out of dust? Day and night he ponders the mystery and its meaning. In the desert he has found water-can it be that in his fate he has found his life? He looks up. The ladder has somehow been left in place. He is free to go, but now he has no desire to depart. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A New Kind of Life | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...week's end Suzy and Pierre were relieved that the pretense was gone. But Hollywood was dumbstruck. Now, a lot of folks wondered whether it really would be right for the happy married couple to continue sharing the same apartment. People talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Bachelor Girl | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

This argument was almost the same as that used by more adamant opponents, including the woman closest to the proposed apartment, who described herself as "dumbstruck and against it." Like most of the others in the area she based her opposition on the possible damage to the neighborhood...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Residents Protest Plans For Shady Hill Housing | 5/19/1955 | See Source »

Mayor LaGuardia and Leon Henderson, veteran prophets of civilian destitution, were dumbstruck. Manpower Czar McNutt, who had privately argued for a National Service Act early in the year, dropped his dead issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS IN 1943: Problems of Plenty | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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