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Ravaged, still-disputed Manchuria was the ugliest wound that would have to heal before the pattern of Chinese unity could be complete. To heal other sore spots in Shansi, Honan and Hupeh provinces, tireless U.S. Peacemaker George Marshall toured North China, working in the difficult lower political levels to win practical realization of the military truce he and China's top leaders had arranged. Amid his stops was isolated Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism. There he remained overnight, caught cold watching an elaborate performance of drum dancers and folk singers in an icy auditorium, had a long talk with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Wounds | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

Good to the Last Drop. In San Francisco, Sherwood Unkefer, sore at losing $475 in a holdup, charged after the fleeing bandit, who held him up again, took a $2,200 ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christmas 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...their motor, laughing. Were they laughing at me? I wondered uneasily; and as I sauntered across the fields I vaguely cursed those misbelievers. Yes, yes, their eyes should be darkened, and their mocking lips put to silence. They should be smitten with the botch of Egypt, and a sore botch in the legs that cannot be healed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Umbrella against Fate | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Furthermore, I had the wonderful assurance that whenever Jim piled his great hulk into a bucket seat and started off for some sore spot, I could stop worrying about that particular problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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