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...after-effects of the tactical toot set in, other parliamentarians felt ashamed. Last week the Diet 1) finally passed the coal bill; 2) agreed that further deliberations should be conducted with "extreme self-containment"; 3) adopted a resolution sponsored by the women Diet members prohibiting the sale of liquor in the Diet restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tactical Toot | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Once, when someone asked whether his religion ever interfered with his banking, Sanders exploded: "Christianity isn't worth a tinker's toot if it won't work! The place to find out if Christianity works is at your desk. I apply it to life as I live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Banker in the Pulpit | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Atlanta, state legislators learned that an old law required locomotives to go toooooooot-toooooooot toot-toot when approaching Georgia grade crossings, brought it up to date and in conformity with the laws of adjoining states by authorizing toooooooot toooooooot toot-toooooooot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...want a musician to beat on a drum, Or a trumpet ta toot, or a banjo to strum, You can't do a single thing 'til you hear from Petrillo. Petrillo. Petrillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Bah! from the Pooh-bah | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Spend one day on that field and you'll never forget Dick Harlow. Say what you will of other coaches, at Harvard and anywhere else--but when they got out on that practice field with Dick, Harlow is boss. And everyone knows it. One toot from his whistle and pandemonium suddenly turns into haste, haste of players and coaches alike to get to where Dick is. Harlow takes the C-team for five minutes, and for five minutes the scrubs are the hottest outfit on the field...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Passing the Buck | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

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