Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thighed showgirls go to his vocabulary when he calls opera singers "hamfats." Does he know that it takes all that "heft" to sing above a vast orchestra? . . . Opera is not supposed to be a flashy, visual affair of housebroken horses and incredible bosoms ... We don't go to look; we go to listen...
...General Clay was right, the West would look much like a poker player who started betting on a pair of deuces and found, on second glance, that he held a pair of aces...
TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar, together with a LIFE reporter and photographer, set out in a hired 1935 Ford to have a look at the war between India and Hyderabad. The Indian army had undertaken a "police action" (which it also called a "mission of mercy") against Hyderabad, whose predominantly Hindu population was ruled by a stubborn Moslem Nizam. The would-be war correspondents sped 180 miles toward the front, found that the war was over by the time they got there. All in all, it had been one of the shortest, happiest wars ever seen. Cabled Lubar...
...showed off its prize prisoner: he was a middle-aged clerk who had been secretary of the local Razakar organization-the band of Moslem diehards and guerrillas led by fanatic little Kasim Razvi (TIME, Aug. 30). A meek character in a grey Persian lamb fez and long coat, he looked just as his leader Razvi might look if the fire were gone from his eyes. He was captured the day before war's end with a sword in his hand. Now he was bewildered, crushed. He murmured: "Razvi has deceived...
With her trim figure, blonde hair and syrup-colored eyes, fun-loving Mitty González looks like a French fashion plate. She was the first in Santiago to wear the New Look. But unlike Eva Perón, another South American style-setter, she cares little for politics. Says she: "Women's suffrage will not necessarily mean that every woman must run for office...