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Modern history has no more dramatic scene than Wu's speech at Lake Success. The world heard only by dim and dignified hearsay of Hitler raging at statesmen who came to Berchtesgaden; it saw only the absurd arrested motion of Hitler's triumphant jig in the Forest of Compiègne. Millions by television and radio saw & heard Wu spew forth Communism's unappeasable hatred, cloaked in Communism's lies and muscled by Communism's paranoid vocabulary of denunciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Paris | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...scrap a ditty, jig...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maids Are A College Institution, But Time May Bring Big Changes | 11/22/1950 | See Source »

...Treatment. Much of the raising of false hope could be laid to the showmanship which marked the first news. Patients who had been crippled were photographed dancing a jig after a few shots of either hormone. But the research team headed by Drs. Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall which touched off the foofaraw ends a solemn, 120-page report in the Archives of Internal Medicine with these sobering words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Creaking Legions | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...electronic thinking machine. I must say, it didn't do too badly on the first test to which I put it; when asked to compute the odds on the infallibility of a pontiff who could thus reward the unspeakable Mr. Hearst, it ground out the answer in jig time: 5,463,941,278,336 to 1 against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...very interested to read that General Bradley's men "delivered the final knockout to the Nazi's Afrika Korps in three weeks, knifed through Sicily in jig time and had the Germans reeling out of France in less than a month" [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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