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Born on a tabletop in Joe's Café, The dirtiest place in the U.S.A., Killed his paw with TNT . Killed his maw with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King Davy & Friends | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...halt the rebirth of a rearmed, democratic Germany. The Soviets were overcommitted: with less than a third of U.S. industrial capacity, they were at tempting to keep up an atomic armament race with the U.S. An enormous part of Russia's armaments was disappearing in the maw of the Red Chinese dragon, and the Soviet people, under cruel economic burdens, were restive. It appeared the Soviet leaders wanted a "respite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Confidence & Caution | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

Into the theater's greedy maw has gone too much; what emerges, however hardhitting, seems' too meaningless. For all its force, The Bad Seed betokens neither art nor life; for all its grimness, it can only be classified as entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...over Mexico City. To tourists looking out from their hotel windows, the rosy mountain is enchanting. But to the primitive Indians living in the village of Amecameca at the volcano's base, it is frightening. Centuries ago their ancestors cast human sacrifices into the crater's fiery maw. Today Popocatepetl sleeps, but the Indians of Amecameca are sure that it is still hungry and jealous of its rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Popo's Toll | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...Maw's Delays. In Los Angeles, retired Blacksmith Abraham Jones won an annulment of his marriage when he complained that his wife Amelia "had no love for me," once took three days to cook a chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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