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After Hamburg was flattened by bombs, the organization was scattered from Berlin to all parts of the Reich. The broadcasters themselves are a motley crew of traitors and adventurers; many (including Lord Haw Haw) suffer from maudlin homesickness. Their pay, on the whole, is not high; Brita seldom hit $400 a month, even with overtime and extra broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swedish Nightingale | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...John Citizen how he'd go about stopping wars and he'll hem & haw and say Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FREEDOM FROM ATTACK: International Police | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Lady Haw-Haw who broadcasts in Eng lish on Radio Tokyo. One U.S. sub crew which had just sunk two Jap transports' liked her pro gram the night they left for home. Said Tokyo Rose:"You build 'em, we sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Iron Men for the Iron Sharks | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...Onomatopoeic words (manufactured to imitate sounds) occurred 233 times. The most frequent ones: heh, haw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Comic-Strip Language | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...about on what used to be the scene of historic gridiron duels. But now the turf is being torn up in long, deep-brown furrows. And the old familiar chant of "Rah-rah-rah" that formerly echoed through the Stadium of a weekend afternoon has given place to "gee-haw, gee-haw," as the girls crack whips over the back of straining horses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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