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Something snapped inside Trooper Tedbury. He flashed his unsheathed sword down from the vertical "Carry Sword" position, pointed it straight at Guide Reeves's throat and shouted over his chin strap: "You are a liar. Move on!" The 34 Americans retreated in disorder, and Guide Reeves found himself speechless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: En Garde! | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

staying with the Dalai Lama, My uncle, he gave me a ride on a yak, And I was speechless. He said, Mamie Mamie, grasp his ears. And off we went Beyond Yonkers, then I felt safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweeney & the Mockingbirds | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...Middletown, Pennsylvania, man. I was eating my evening meal last night when who should be on the radio but Bill Stern. After hearing him talk about Harvard and Johnny Yovicsin, I was amazed. I was speechless for a while. Then my blood began to boil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KUDOS FOR YOVICSIN | 12/17/1957 | See Source »

...estimate), 200 Europeans arrested. Even the Algiers press^ which has long campaigned for an all-out fight against the rebel Moslems, found the rioting excessive. Said Echo d'Alger: "The boys who rioted were playing the rebels' game." In Paris, Figaro editorialized: "We are left speechless." But the students and veterans who had led the rioting were neither speechless nor ashamed. In a joint statement they proclaimed: "People of Algiers, once again you have displayed in a striking fashion your anger at too many unpunished crimes, and your determination to remain French on French soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Dance of Death | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...even weightier reason," Tierney explained dryly, "is the conflict of interest arising from such employment of members of our organization." For the first time in Hudson County history, it looked as if many politicians will be left to their own devices and/or speechless at election time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Speechless in Jersey | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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