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...told that I was charged with sabotage, espionage, conspiracy, and the smuggling of Hungarians out of the country. Whenever I seemed to approach exhaustion, I was given coffee and cigarettes. They obviously contained strong stimulants . . . I was slugged over the ear once and dumped naked into a tub of ice water. I began to have hallucinations. The picture of my wife kept flashing before me. At the 70th hour I fell from my chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY: That Knock upon the Door | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...Democrats' greatest assets, cried Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan in the prize tub-thumping speech of the meeting, were four particularly awful Republicans. He named Robert Taft, Congressman Joe Martin, Washington's Senator Harry Cain and Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy ("whose name will live . . . in monstrous infamy . . . Lynch . . . Boycott . . . Quisling and McCarthyism!"). Oklahoma's flamboyant Robert S. Kerr branded the G.O.P. a war party: "They are feeling sicker every day . . . Mac-Arthuritis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Inscrutable, Necessary Harry | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Cherington, a Republican, charged that the "A.D.A. in this state has degenerated into a professional group of Democratic tub-thumpers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cherington Attacks 'Tub-Thumpers', Resigns from Massachusetts A.D.A. | 2/7/1951 | See Source »

Plots to William Shakespeare were as pots to a busy wizard-any old tub, begged, borrowed or stolen, would do to mix the magic in. In The Tempest, for instance, the plot is the tired old story about a nobleman, bilked of his estates, who takes refuge on a distant island, and mild revenge on his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Yet in this common vessel, Shakespeare stirred a wizard's brew of steaming language and the rich juice of 30 years' experience; the mixture mulled, at the last stir of the action, into a fine philosophical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teapot Tempest | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Yesterday's workout, according to a release prepared before practice by H.A.A. tub-thumper W. Henry Johnston, "emphasized a review and brush up on each position with attention given to fundamentals, mainly blocking and tackling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ravreby Back In First-String End Position | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

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