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Brother Jeff. Cool it was. In Grenada (pop. 7,914), a white supremacist stronghold that hitherto had been thought to be too tough for civil rights workers to crack, the Governor's dic tum received its clearest vindication. "We want Brother Jefferson Davis to know that the South he represented will never rise again," proclaimed Robert Green, 32, a march leader, as he stood astride the Davis memorial in the town square. "We want Mississippi to know that it is a part of the Union. We want white folks to know we have died for the flag too." With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: Br'er Fox | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

Classics: "Tum pavor sapientiam omnem mihi ex animo expectorat...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Harvard Malaise Explained | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Kenneth G. Macqueen, who developed the demon knitter, began his career as a medical student but "whammed out be cause I wasn't much good." Then he manufactured rubber facial replacements for disfigured war victims. "To make sure they would stick," he says, "I sandpapered my tum and fixed an ear onto it with cement and wore it four months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mechanics: How to Knit a Yacht | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...Tum: The way I look at it, Communism is no match for Democracy. Democracy gives man his dignity, whereas Communism bridles him like a beast. Put the two ideologies side by side before the people and they are bound to choose Democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: If U Nu Pablo . . . | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...girl until she leaves school. That's quite early enough." A buyer for Daniel Neal, largest English supplier of children's uniforms, presented a different defense: "The British schoolgirl just doesn't have the sort of figure one ought to draw attention to. Her poor little tum bulging with rice pudding, you know, and no foundation garments to take care of her seat. More often than not she is covered with a thick layer of puppy fat, and we think it more tactful to keep most of her well covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Style at St. Trinian's | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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