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...Molest a man with beauty, how can he help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Enter Poet, Laughing | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...also not true that Seagrave had forced native nurses to have sex relations with him. This impression had been due to a careless translator's rendering of the Burmese word chanade as "molest." The word actually means "discriminate." Apparently some nurses dislike Seagrave because of his autocratic ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Hot Potato | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...pretty face as a starting point for hundreds of grotesquely twisted, hysterical-seeming portraits. When the Germans took Paris, Picasso had fled to the south of France. Shortly afterwards he decided to return. "Simple Nazi soldiers used to visit me," says Picasso, who was considered too valuable to molest, even though Resistance leaders sometimes met at his studio. "When they left I presented them with souvenir postcards of Guernica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Captain Pablo's Voyages (See Cover) | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...islanders soon learned that Sun was no carpetbagger. He set up six "Don'ts" for his troops: "Don't molest the populace; don't go to prostitutes; don't gamble; don't 'squeeze'; don't be false; don't be lazy." He asked Formosans to help enforce discipline. Villagers still talk about the lieutenant who walked the streets of the small towns near Fengshan carrying a big sign listing his crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Before Storms & Winds | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Naples, he edited a scholarly anti-Fascist magazine called La Critica, defied the government with his book History as the Story of Liberty. Once a band of young Black Shirts threatened to storm his home, fled when confronted by Signora Croce. Beyond that, the Fascists never dared to molest the Croces. "There is one man in all Italy whom I fear," Mussolini once remarked-"Croce. And I fear him because I do not understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Don Benedetto | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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