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Outside, my bodiless sisters frisk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old College Try | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Though the whole process was one of mute foreboding, like a visit to a dentist or a piano teacher, the average citizen held still for the frisk and sometimes even managed a wan smile. By dint of withholding and pay-as-you-go plans, the government usually had his tax money by March anyhow. And this year, because of tax law changes in 1948, he could experience a temporary and spurious elation-of approximately 50 million taxpayers (5,000,000 fewer than last year's record total), 80% would get rebates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Milking the Mice | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...reasons unknown to me, the management of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, our first stop, put us up in the bridal suite ($25 a day U.S.), and the airport customs inspector gave me a quick frisk-for guns or opium, no doubt. At Rangoon, where we landed in monsoon weather, I was met at the airport by a little brown man wearing a red skirt and sandals who politely informed me that the Government guest house awaited us. That was news to me-until I found out that he was looking for a United Nations man named Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...Christian Smuts, South Africa's old-soldier Prime Minister, met U.S. Minister Thomas Holcomb, former U.S.M.C. Commandant, at a reception in Pretoria. "Frisk him all over," Smuts ordered in his best gangsterese, "I think he has an atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Elevations | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...tried to wedge in ticketless, were sent packing. "Get back there!" barked a policeman as he collared another man, tall, dour-faced, pince-nezed, who was trying to push by. "I'm the Secretary of the Treasury," said Henry Morgenthau, mildly. Inside, each ticketholder was given a brisk frisk for weapons before he could proceed to the galleries, where another hundred Secret Service men were scattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Answer | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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