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Some U.S. citizens, especially colonial-minded oldtime civilian employees of the Panama Canal Co., were as dissatisfied as the Panamanian demonstrators. "The sight of a representative of the U.S. handing our capitulation notice to another country made me want to puke," said one. Yet a quiet movement toward international friendship is afoot on the isthmus, and its patron is a powerful one: the commanding officer of the U.S. Army Caribbean, Major General Theodore F. Bogart, 55. Lanky General Bogart got to know and like Panama when he was stationed there as a lieutenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Operation Friendship | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

...Bunkum." The mercurial British press blew its stack. "Fatuous bunkum . . . that would make the angels puke." cried James Cameron in the News Chronicle. "Of what really goes on in high places one emerges from that ludicrous marquee with a blinding ignorance. Applauded by many an American newsman, the Daily Herald's Hugh Pilcher wrathfully arose in the Hagertorium to fire some questions: "Mr. Hagerty. are any of us to take these briefings seriously? Are we going to hear anything about the great international issues, or are we going to hear simply what they ate and not what they said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brouhaha in the Hagertorium | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...controversial 1942 Pearl Harbor Report board that exonerated the Roosevelt Administration of blame for unpreparedness. after his retirement devoted much of his time to fostering support for a political union of democratic nations. His favorite judicial maxim, drawn from Justice Holmes: "If a law makes you want to puke, then due process has been denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

Uncharted Seas. Solidly legalistic, Owen Roberts in time inherited the title of Justice Holmes - "The Great Dissenter." From the quotable Holmes, Justice Roberts drew a maxim: "If a law makes you want to puke, then due process has been denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roberts Dissenting | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...bullets creep up toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving a big sigh. Others just puke steam-I only claim them as damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Train-Buster | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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