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...smoker in the Kremlin appeared fit and trim as a new Stormovik. Tadeusz Romer, former Polish Ambassador to Moscow, now back again with Premier Mikolajczyk, had not seen Joseph Stalin since early 1943. Romer found Stalin looking "years younger." ?>e-hind the tobacco haze the old revolutionist could well shrug his shoulders, and utter his characteristic-rejoinder: "Pochemu niet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Why Not? | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Well might Joseph Stalin puff his pipe, shrug his shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Why Not? | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...know. I never think. I just write,' said he with a shrug. His nervous Finnish partner decided the game was lost, remembered a phone call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Next Time | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...parish graveyard we found two old women checking up on the marble monuments which had been blasted loose from their foundations. They were the first of many to shrug their shoulders and give a characteristic Gallic answer when asked about the troubles they had seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Liberated | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Dear Mr. Roosevelt!" He may or may not have realized how soon the cork was going to blow out. Far to the south the Jap tornado was engulfing Borneo and rolling into the Solomon Islands. In the middle of February Singapore fell as casually as a shrug. Then the Japs turned their fury back on the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: 15467 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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