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...while it is still in a very sleepy phase. She can feed it whenever it feels hungry-sometimes eleven times a day. Mother and baby are thus well started on breast feeding. Such babies soon adopt a fairly regular schedule. Meanwhile they coo a good deal and suck their fingers very little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Discovery | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...establish satisfactory relations with Britain on defense, commerce, finance. The delegates continued to suck quietly on their cheroots. Then Sir Reginald added that without the help of the Burmese people themselves, nothing at all could be achieved. The Burmans smiled and nodded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Ice Cream | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...Hell on the Hudson." West Point rules and traditions struck Plebe Robert Woods like a tidal wave on the morning after his mad dash to get there. Reporting to the cadet adjutant, he got this greeting: "Wipe that smile off, Mr. Dumbjohn, or whatever your name is! Brace up! Suck up your guts! More! Get rid of that gabardine coat! Get those shoulders back! Pull your chin in! Further! Further! Where 're you from? The Navy? What part of the Navy? Oh, Annapolis, eh? . . ." The next few minutes of scorn were enough to wither an asbestos monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Long Grey Line | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...they must keep the enemy off balance. Said Krueger: "I asked my troops to do the impossible and they did it." The next phase of Krueger's plan required the 7th and 32nd Divisions to step up their pres sure on the enemy and thus suck in his reserves. They did that, too, while the rainy season deluged them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: End Run, Touchdown | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

Eisenhower left the correspondents wondering whether his airmen had purposely left the Rhine bridges standing, to suck as many Germans as possible into the decisive battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: Destroy the Enemy | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

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