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...another damn nickel! Let 'em fight their stinkin' war with sticks and stones! Enough is enough. Kathleen A. Deming Captain, U.S.A.F. (ret.) St. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 5, 1975 | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...dogface (Keir Dullea) is scared and the sergeant (Jack Warden) knows it. "You think this whole stinkin' war has just got one purpose-to knock you off," he sneers. First day ashore, the purpose is almost achieved. A Japanese sniper wings the private and then moves in for the kill. But when the private sees the bayonet he goes beast, and when he comes to his senses again the sniper has been reduced to sukiyaki. "That was close, wasn't it?" the sergeant sniggers softly in the private's ear. "And now you feel guilty because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Nature of the Beast | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...purpose is to provide "adequate housing facilities" for "underprivileged persons." But in their hilarity, the Georgians could not help blurting out the real purpose. Drawled mustachioed Alpha A. ("Alfalfa") Fowler Jr., 37, Georgia state legislator and A.R.F. president: "What we're lookin' for is the bluegum, stinkin' scum of the earth, the niggers with common-law wives and passels of little black bastards." Back home in Georgia, an A.R.F. cofounder, pudgy, rednecked Politico Roy Harris, was equally frank. Vowed Harris, often called the "kingmaker" of Georgia politics: "We're goin' to buy the houses next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Having Wonderful Time | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved to chat so is still drinkin' in her stinkin' pink palazzo. There are images and characters in Porter that stick in the mind because of their authentic, ginny bitterness: the lovers whose cars are seen in front of too many bars, the males whom men forget and only tailors remember, the girl who sits high above the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Great Ear-Wiggler | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...Biloxi, Miss, to make a speech, ran into a spot of trouble in New Orleans' French Quarter. New Orleans Cab Driver Philip Bellinger tried to piece together the story for reporters: "This guy came up to me on Canal Street. He was kinda stinkin', I guess. He told me he was the governor of Montana. We got a lot of tourists get to thinking they're governor sometime or other. I didn't believe this guy, but I told him I'd help him to cash a check . . ." Eight or nine hotspots later, said Bollinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 15, 1950 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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