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Ever since a team of Russian military advisers and technicians dropped in last January, Albania's youngish (38) dictator, Enver Hoxha (rhymes with got cha) has been as truculent as a small boy who thinks his big brother can lick anybody. Last week his behavior had reached a point where Washington and London could no longer afford to ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Truculence | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...year and a half, 500 detectors, 4,800 transmitting and receiving sets were turned out, installed in ships, helped lick U-boats. Corman filled the last of $2,000,000 worth of orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Stable Sonics | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...call to arms, whooping it up for Harry Truman, "a distinguished Missourian in the tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt." In Ohio, senatorial candidate John Bricker returned the Republican challenge with the voice of doom: "Bring on your New Deal, Communistic and subversive groups. If we can't lick them in Ohio, America is lost anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Silver Lining | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...when does a queen begin her reproductive life? Dr. Schneirla is not sure, but he has a theory. While the queen is in a bivouac, she is always surrounded by a dense mass of workers, which struggle wildly to lick some substance exuded by her body. The males, no matter how eager, cannot get anywhere near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eciton Matriarchy | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...trust those who pretend to be friends of our country. Many of them are more dangerous than out-and-out enemies. Recently it has become the fashion among certain émigrés, not only the Left but among actual monarchists, to lick our boots. Don't trust them. Once a turncoat, always a turncoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye to All That | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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