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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would you risk certain death at the hands of the Nazi's to rescue a pregnant cow? Would you toss away fame and fortune to set up a national park in the jungles of East Africa? Well, maybe you wouldn't, but knobby-kneed David Niven and unknown John Steel take care of those two little things in this week's double bill at the Exeter...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Island Rescue and Ivory Hunters | 9/26/1952 | See Source »

Japan, fed up with six years of bowing before the occupiers, was also sensitive. The Japanese public applauded the sentence. The newspaper Yomiuri warned: "We hope the Japanese government, whose weak-kneed diplomacy was criticized in connection with the U.S. . . . agreement, will retain to the last their firm stand in the U.N. forces agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The $5 Crisis | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Another CRIMSON editor, David L. Halberstam '55, claimed that he had been kneed in the groin by one policeman after that officer had failed to catch a photographer he had been chasing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Claim Mishandling In Police Methods at Melee | 5/16/1952 | See Source »

Moravia's new novel unravels the character of a Fascist-a weak-kneed fellow named Marcello whose troubles all seem to stem from a cruel streak and a wish to be "normal," to be like everybody else or maybe a little more so. The Conformist is not Moravia's best novel, but it is his most ambitious. Underlying it is the question that many an Italian asks himself: How could seemingly decent people have turned into Fascist bullies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Fascist | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...nation and freedom-loving countries of the world can thank Warren Austin for what remains of the hollow mockery of a weak-kneed "world police force," known to us as the U.N., which cannot clearly define the word "aggressor" for fear of irritating a big bully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

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