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...construction costs were closing in on them. In Atlanta, teen-agers who possessed juiced-up cars had developed a process known as "scratching." They started the car in reverse, whipped backwards in a tight semicircle, then slammed the gears into low and roared off with a squeal of tires and a shower of dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Reeny Season | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...Terrible Eye. The committee's star witness was ailing Edward P. Terry, an erstwhile Bilbo secretary. Despite the terrible eye that Bilbo fixed on him from across the crowded Senate caucus room, Witness Terry began to squeal willingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Cougar in the Caucus Room | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Royal Family and the Eisenhowers had hot scones and tea in the drawing room, and then the King led the way for a hike around the place. Dinner was at 8; grouse from the royal moors was seryed, and the guests dined to the squeal of the King's pipers. Everybody danced reels and flings that night in the castle ballroom, and Captain John danced with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Margaret got Ike's autograph before he left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Darkest America | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...quite understand each other. I wish to thank you mainly for the night you had me stand from dusk to dawn at attention, trying to make me squeal on my fellow comrades. That is the main reason I hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Love Your Enemies | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...about him. Vivian Leigh is an effective contrast as Cleopatra, the girlish queen. Flora Robson, as Ftatateeta, a weird combination of killer and nurse, handles herself with barbaric competence. Stewart Granger, who looks like the muscular product of a California beach, manages adequately to make about half the audience squeal ecstatically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 8/20/1946 | See Source »

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