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Another damper was the lack of good fur, real wool. French ingenuity did its best. Rabbits became everything up to ermine and chinchilla. Cats, rats, moles were tinted and tortured into sealskin and beaver. But Parisians faced a cold winter without much coal. Said the Chicago Daily News' correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Black Lace and Woolen Undies | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

The Lower Level. Schlieben's small, holdout groups achieved a few hours more delay. Time & again U.S. troops cleared one level of a Vauban-Todt fort, only to have Germans emerge in their rear from a lower level. Schlieben's tunnel system at first yielded 300 Nazi moles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The General's Compliments | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

¶ A club was organized: The Protective Order of Moles. To share the deep wine cellar in a limestone cliff, one must swear that he had been driven to the molehill by a "Whistling Willie" or "Jerry, the Bomb Dropper."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Settled Front | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Then all of Leningrad listened breathlessly to the music of battle. Like moles the Germans had burrowed deep into the alien earth; now thousands of tons of explosives dug them out.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: End of Siege | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Big scene: Cinemate Fields ending the masquerade by partially disrobing bearded Cinemactor Woolley in a courtroom. She discloses two large identifying moles (near his collarbone).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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