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...young war veteran, broken by his experience, confused in heart and mind, will interrupt your talk about how democracy must be defended at all costs. He will ask: 'That is very nice talk, but tell me about tomorrow. Am I to take a gun and fight for capitalist America?' If you have time, you can go on and explain what capitalist America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Report from Munich | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...unlikely, for example, that the changes will include facilities for smokers. As it is, girls studying in the Fiske Room not only interrupt their own studying when they go out for a cigarette, but also distract non-smokers. If smoking were limited to one room, perhaps in the basement, the cost of effective ventilation would not be extravagant and it would be a considerable convenience to all girls. Another universal complaint, which will probably not be fully corrected in the new scheme, concerns the straight wooden chairs. They might have done very well in the more straight-laced days forty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Radcliffe Library | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

Should we not return to those happy days when the death penalty was abolished in Belgium?† Is not the abolition of the death penalty a victory of humanity and civilization?" A Communist deputy jumped to his feet. "Don't interrupt me," exclaimed Spaak. "It's hard enough to see my way clearly as it is." When the Regent Prince Charles asked him to form a new government, Spaak resisted: "With the U.N., the chairman ship of O.E.E.C., Western military union and the direction of Belgium's Foreign Office, don't you think that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Two Heads for One | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Eight Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who plotted to interrupt the Yale game Saturday with a surprise explosion were officially suspended yesterday, and a ninth student implicated in the prank was placed on probation, MIT authorities announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tech Suspends Eight Who Planned Stadium Blast; Ninth on Probation | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

...chain-talker, and the only thing that stops her momentarily is the need for oxygen; she gasps, and the unpunctuated torrent of words gushes on until she must breathe again. When someone looks as if he may try to interrupt, she may shut her dark blue eyes or stare him down, but she keeps going. Her accent has been described by her ex-husband as "half British and half pickaninny." She does not even stop talking to smear on fresh lipstick; the words sound like a gurgle, but out they come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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