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...still picketing. We're using the railroad. We send our men over to the railroad station to pick up pipe. Our men continue to do this, and we continue to be in business. But then the boys start getting run off the road and threatened. They threw two stink bombs in my house. The house still stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: IT SHAKES YOUR CONFIDENCE | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...much more expressive, sets out to make a mess of Fess. He swings at him with a rifle butt, wrestles with him in the muddy Ohio River. But sure 'nuff, he ends up back at the ranch, gloomily sitting in an old metal tub muttering, "Indian no stink, white man stink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...literature today is strewn with dead cats, of all sizes and philosophies--and they all stink. As Jurgen and Domnei and Figures of Earth collect their dust, one wonders at fashion and the "bitch-goddess" fame...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Cambridge Scene | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

...trains don't run there any more. It's Endsville and there's no more room. Now blow this on your ax. A real cool cat from East Desperation comes wheeling up to the village school in a real crazy short, and starts to stink up the upholstery. Man, he's got life with a belt in the back. He bugs the teach and rains the warden, a real sad square: "Man, you're draggin' your rear axle in waltztime." Pretty soon the hipster is smitten with a kitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man, It's Terrible | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...roommates got thrown out for heaving a stink bomb at a freshman dance, and the third left because he couldn't stand it one minute longer. I remained by the skin of my teeth." Despite such candid appraisal of his needy alma mater by this lone survivor, the College's intercontinental radio commercial--the feature event of Harvard's Day--won almost universal acclaim from those who are supposed to know. Variety, the show business journal, though that the broadcast "made the Harvard eggheads sound as provocative as peelers...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, | Title: Lavish Celebrations Mark Second Year of 'Program' | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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