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...these items would be available in any quantity before Christmas, but the words rolled on the tongue like bubble sum. Some U.S. citizens even enjoyed knowing that there were no more restrictions on cotton linters, natural resins, green bone glue, horse mane hair and an insecticide named pyrethrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECONVERSION: The Lovely Future | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Isabella received Minister Sickles in her negligee, her huge breasts half-bare, her mane of hair hanging down to her waist. She had had as many men in her life as Sickles had had women-an indiscriminate series of ambassadors, footmen, Italian tenors, cabinet ministers, army privates. Sickles and Isabella reacted like magnet and iron. As a sop to convention, Isabella forthwith converted him to Catholicism, arranged for him a marriage of convenience with one of her ladies in waiting. In Madrid they began to call him "Yankee King of Spain." It was all very perplexing to his friends back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee King of Spain | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...plea for mercy came from Premier Suzuki. Shaking his vanishing mane, the ancient mariner broadcast to his countrymen: "Developments do not warrant optimism ... in the present momentous crisis. . . . But I am ready to die in leading the nation in carrying on the war and crushing the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Weakest Yet | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...that is now France. They were about 5 ft. 4 in. tall, and weighed about 200 Ibs.; they had huge heads, almost no necks, broad faces and pale brown eyes of metallic hardness. The women had a heavy thicket of black hair over back, chest and belly; a huge mane of hair hung from skull to waist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prehistoric Man | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...Christmas Eve he called Emlyn P. Evans, chairman of the Caernarvon Liberal Association, to his Criccieth home. There, amid the gold-&-silver mementos filling the room, the great little man with the flowing white mane and piercing blue eyes announced his decision. He was going to take his doctors' advice; he would not contest the next election. Caernarvon would have to find another candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: L.G. Retires | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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