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...offer of freedom. It was 8 o'clock in the evening of May 16. At that moment, in Room 63 of the circular Council House of New Delhi, the British rulers of India voluntarily went on record before their subjects and the world with a plan-not a weasel-worded promise nor a string-tied offer, but a concrete plan-for the government of an independent, unified India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Freedom | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...port officials were on the alert last week against a possible mongoose invasion. The furry, weasel-like creatures are treasured pets of many U.S. soldiers stationed in Hawaii, where the commonest mammals are mongooses. Many a G.I. will probably try to smuggle his mongoose back to the mainland. If a few succeed, the effect on U.S. wild life and crops may be disastrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Out for Rikki | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...WEASEL IS NO MORE A "TRACKED JEEP" THAN THE, JEEP IS A "WHEELED WEASEL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1945 | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...WEASEL IS BUILT AROUND A HULL. . . . IT TRAVELS THROUGH DEEP MUD, SNOW, SAND, ... UP & DOWN STEEP RIVER BANKS AND THROUGH DEEP WATER. LET'S GIVE THE JEEP THE CREDIT IT WELL DESERVES BUT THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BUILD THE WEASEL ARE JUSTIFIABLY JEALOUS OF THE SINGULAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THEIR OWN BABY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1945 | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...TIME'S thanks to Studebaker's Marque for his powerful Weasel words. Front-line correspondents sometimes call the land Weasel (M-29) a "tracked jeep." Herewith a picture of its amphibious younger sister, the water Weasel (M29c...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1945 | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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