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...prevailing tone of voice here today is something between a whine and a growl. What sometimes muffles this unpleasant sound is the sweetly reasonable voice of Adenauer himself . . . He is for the Schuman (coal and steel) Plan and the Pleven (European army) Plan. He is against both neo-Nazis and Communists. He manages to be on the side of the angels, the Anglo-Saxons and even the French . . . But the voice of Adenauer is a voice that finds little echo in the German nation. He has great qualities, but not the capacity to evoke affection for himself or real enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: LAND OF THE ALMOST-FREE | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Last week Tonkin's uneasy quiet was broken by the urgent growl of American bulldozers and cement-mixers. De Lattre, in furious haste, was replacing the Beau Geste forts on his northern front with modern concrete bunkers. His main concern: protection of the vital 60-mile road and rail link between Hanoi and the supply port of Haiphong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Tonkin Line | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...week that President Truman announced his program for mobilizing the U.S. economy, the Senate's new watchdog committee on U.S. preparedness uttered its first warning growl. After just a month's sniffing through the U.S. mobilization effort, Texas' sharp-nosed Chairman Lyndon Johnson had caught the strong scent of "business as usual" in some corners of the Defense Department's planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Texas Watchdog | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...strong light, they hide in a cozy "hutch" against the wainscoting. When night comes, they venture out in search of the mild artificial light that they crave. Guided by their photoelectric eyes, they creep toward a lamp or the fireplace. When they hit an obstacle they stop, growl faintly, back away and try again at a slightly different angle. Their wanderings often take them all over the house. When they reach a light of the proper intensity, they bask under it blissfully in photoelectric euphoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Synthetic Pets | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Interesting acting job: Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, as Stark's hard-boiled assistant, puts a snarl and growl into her radio-trained voice, spreading a small bonfire through her scenes and stealing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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