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Alabama's Senator Lister Hill came out of his chair like a rooster flapping for the high roost, began squawking in protest. But Chavez had successfully brought off a slick parliamentary maneuver.* A vote was taken. The motion passed, 49 to 17. The FEPC fight was out in the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strictly from Dixie | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Neck. In Fruita, Colo., an illustrative marvel took place. A farmer chopped off the head of a rooster named Mike. He missed Mike's jugular vein and a lump of tissue at the top of his neck that controlled Mike's motor impulses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Rooster | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...people of the port) were accustomed of an evening to squeeze themselves into giant teahouses and chrome-and-glass movie palaces. The peón of the "camp," working for his keep and a little more on the great estancias, found few with whom to gather; even his rooster crowed only twice, because there was no answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Prodigal's Return | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...cost of prayers for the soul soared from $5,000 to $15,000. And the need for both coffins and prayers increased because the people trusted garlic (almost unobtainable at $20 to $50 a stem), and red paper crosses pinned on their doors to prevent cholera. Others found a rooster tied to a corpse more efficacious. Many heard that a stagnant pool behind a certain temple would save them, and the police had to drive away would-be drinkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In China's Capital | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...December to clean up the red-light district, he protested vehemently that such an action in the week before Christmas would be unChristian. On such occasions he was a formidable figure-a wry neck kept his head cocked to the right and made him look like an angry rooster. Once he ended a two-hour Council debate by rising and bellowing "Bull!" at the top of his lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: By the River | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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