Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cold beyond help of padded clothing or any flask of liquid warmth, a hunter can still come alive to the heart-moving sight of "White Wavys" (snow geese) settling into range or the whisper of duck wings in the reeds just before the birds take off. Last week, as wintering waterfowl beat their way south, hunting seasons were opening along the ancient flyways: the Atlantic seaboard, the Pacific and mountain states, down the Mississippi Valley and south across the Great Plains. Everywhere the birds stopped, they matched wits with well-equipped adversaries. Guns belched bird shot from cramped duckboats...
...interviewed by a TIME correspondent in his dressing room on the Désirée set, tried hard to scotch such talk and to explain his behavior. "I'll be damned if I feel obliged to defend myself," he burst out in a cultured and fervent half-whisper, "but I am sick to death of being thought of as a blue-jeaned slobbermouth and I am sick to death of having people come up and say hello and then just stand there expecting you to throw a raccoon at them. I have always hated the fact that...
...Marshall Plan). Standout poster: an exhortation to Danes to be musical ("Play Yourself"), showing a sprightly young lady playing a bow across strands of her hair, an almost perfect illustration of a famed T.S. Eliot line ("A woman drew her long black hair out tight / And fiddled whisper music on those strings...
...Whisper in Great Cornard. Like most political tempests, this one began as a whisper in the grass roots. Young (34) Len Fisher is the local handyman in Great Cornard, a village of 1,000 souls which has drowsed on Suffolk's green plains through seven centuries of British history. He is also secretary of the local Labor Party, and early last year, he got to thinking. Like many another Briton, especially of Socialist persuasion, he was worried about the hostility between Communism and the West. And he was worried about rearming the Germans. So he sat down...
...some areas, the Reds show the people booklets containing pictures of Ho Chi Minh and Bao Dai, ordering them to sign under the picture of their choice. There are few signatures for Bao Dai.* More effective still are the propaganda speeches and the carefully phrased whispers of the women who press the Communist advantage relentlessly. "We are winning," they whisper. "We are winning. Do you want to be with us, or with the French and the foreigners? The white men have surrendered half of your country; they will surrender the other half too. Do not trust them. Come with...