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...Vigilant Women for the Bricker Amendment gathered in Washington, shook their heads sadly as Mrs. Robert Vogeler (wife of the freed prisoner of the Hungarian Reds) cried: "Men who serve their country now have fewer rights than men who betray it." Another orator made the Vigilant Women fairly squeal with delight when he gave his reasons for changing the U.S. Constitution, beginning with: "This is the 74th birthday of General Douglas MacArthur." The speaker was Clarence Manion, ex-dean of the University of Notre Dame's law school, now chairman of President Eisenhower's Commission on Intergovernmental (federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Gold-Bricker | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...decided I'd better kill myself be cause I might squeal when they started driving those long needles or splinters up under my fingernails and setting them on fire.'' he said. "I knew they did things like that, and they told me they were going to, and I believed them, and I thought, 'Dean, I don't know whether you can take it or not.' " That night he grabbed a submachine gun from a dozing guard, intending first to kill his Chinese tormentors, then put the gun in his mouth and fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Celebrity's Path | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Krajewski explained why he had chosen the pig as his symbol: "The Democrats have been hogging the Administration at Washington, for 20 years, and it's about time the people began to squeal." Besides warring on too frequent changes in military uniforms, Krajewski intends to campaign for an-income-tax moratorium on all incomes below $6,000. While he wants to win, Krajewski really favors a "two-President system." "If you had a Democrat and a Republican in the White House at the same time," he argues, "they'd be so busy watching each other that there would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Poor Man's Candidate | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...will even sleep through meal periods and die of malnutrition. About the only thing that will wake a piglet is the deep, rumbling grunt that the mother sow gives when she "lets down" her milk. When they hear it, the more alert pigs wake up and scuttle squealing to the teat line. As they suckle, they squeal with joy, and their racket wakes the other pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pigs Without Moms | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...sudden guffaw, in chorus, followed by a really entrancing squeal disillusioned him. This was not form for taking hemlock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/11/1950 | See Source »

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