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Miss Jean DeBeer '47, however, disagreed with her schoolmate. "They haven't anything we haven't got-they just have more of it. But we have something they haven't got: (sotto voce). We know how to speak the boys' language," are purred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Girls Rap G.I.-Fraulein Marriages | 12/13/1946 | See Source »

...Just a second." (To a Mr. Tree, sotto voce) "It is a matter of recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEMISPHERE: The Good Neighbors | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Freed from the Fascist muzzle, Rome's journalists went on a publishing spree. Among many new periodicals, dyed every shade of political opinion, appeared Voce d'Operaia (Workmen's Voice), self-styled organ of the "Catholic Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Catholic Communists | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

This startling association of terms raised a dither. Said Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti, boss of Italy's well-knit Communist Party: "I do not know what the Catholic Communist Party is. I will have to find out." Even if Voce d'Operaia turned out to be short-lived, it was a testimonial to the growing popularity of Russia and Communism among Italians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Catholic Communists | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...spit it out. Still most common, because it takes less time, is the old-fashioned method. The anxious soldier is given rest, sedatives, food and psychiatric pep talks. These are usually given so that all the ward may hear - only the most personal part of the discussion is sotto voce. The question is asked repeatedly: "You want to go back and try again, don't you?" The man is led to think that giving up is dishonorable, "that family, friends, comrades and country expect him to return and finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Heavy-Laden | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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