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...sight of the armies made Arjuna weep. It was senseless (and sinful) that so many men should die for his earthly glory. To Krishna, Arjuna recited the evils of war as they have always been known to men who have always made wars. "O Krishna," he cried, "at the sight of these my kinsmen assembled here eager to give battle, my limbs fail and my mouth is parched . . . . I desire neither victory nor empire nor even any pleasure. . . . I would not kill though they should kill me. . . . Far better would it be for me if [they] should slay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Git | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Long Odds. As a precision instrument of war the robot is something to make soldiers weep. It probably cannot be "aimed" at any target smaller than a fair-sized city. The Germans themselves admitted that it could not be used on the Normandy battleground without endangering their own troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Things That Go Bump | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, bearded patriarchs of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home marched the street in prayer shawls and skull caps, sounding the shofars. At St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, and at many & many another church, the indifferent city warmed, and people came to pray, to weep, to share that world morning. In their various ways pagans and pastors acknowledged their presence "in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Invasion: 16229: Jun. 12, 1944 | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...woman began to weep. "Her name is Miss Rooney," said a friend. "She always cries." And whenever she cried a woman from South Bend, Ind., invariably followed. Soon scores of weepers had been touched off, were brusquely ordered to restrain themselves until a more critical moment. Once, at dinner, "Mrs. Dilling suddenly started to sing a mildly ribald song about a young lady and her fiance. Later she stuck her thumb into the air, 'snatched' at [it] with her left hand and made it 'disappear.' She laughed hysterically while she pinched her left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpents and Vipers | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...ston, Cinema idols Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin. Most renowned man with whom Pola's name has been linked is Adolf Hitler (TIME, April 26, 1937). This most sensational of rumors about Pola hit the headlines over half of Europe, is said to have made the Führer weep. Goebbels thought she was Jewish. Hitler had Pola's ancestry investigated, proved her "Polish and therefore Aryan." Pola claims she has never even seen Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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