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...Said a handsome, listless Jewess who had turned Protestant and married a German Catholic and now spoke as a German: "You must not hope for too much from our people. Those who have grown up under Naziism can never be the same again. The good ones have been killed in the Wehrmacht. I don't know why but that's always the way it is. The good ones get killed. There aren't any left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Faces in the Wallow | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Mitchell Lodzinski, 22, had a dazed, slack-mouthed look. He was listless, dull-eyed, wasted down to 123 lbs. from a normal 160. But somewhere deep in him Detroit detectives sensed a gathering scream. He made them jumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: I Can't Stand Things | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...Listless Play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Seeks Initial Win Tonight at M.I.T. | 1/12/1945 | See Source »

...odds since the Reformation, old differences were forgotten in a common defiance of the Nazis, a common defense of the Jews. The Church in occupied Europe has taken a new lease on life because it has fought not only for its own preservation but for all freedom. Churches grown listless and smug under state support turned suddenly about in the state's default and themselves assumed the responsibility of leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop and the Quisling | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...lush (Horace MacMahon); the melodramatically cautious entrance of G-men into a hideout which turns out to be empty; the keenly amusing use of a complacent newsreel in which Illinois' Governor Green takes "personal charge" of the search for Touhy; and cold, excellent shots of Stateville inmates listless against its massive prison buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1944 | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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