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Finally-and we mention this guardedly-the very fact of the visit itself, the very contact of the Soviet leaders with a people free to jeer as well as cheer, gives hope that the undeniable changes within Russia will continue, however slowly, in the right direction toward peace and better understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MISSION FROM MOSCOW | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...Jaunswar girl who admitted to two husbands quickly added, "But I live with only one. The other is now living with my sister." Jaunswar mothers who have been sending their children out of Jaunswar Bawar for modern schooling have been pained to see them weep when the plains children jeer: "How many fathers have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Too Many Husbands | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...reception when their road show moved into Canada. Canadian government officials and farmers treated them courteously enough. But at airports and at hotel entrances, noisy groups of placard-carrying demonstrators, many of them immigrants who came to Canada as anti-Communist refugees after World War II, turned out to jeer and denounce the visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Mixed Reception | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Most Manhattanites applauded; a large minority, as usual too polite in the face of Art and Conductor Mitropoulos to jeer or whistle, simply picked up hats & coats and sifted out at the intermission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Columbus Sails Again | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

Personally, I jeer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Good Neighbors (but Queer) | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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