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The Dreadful Silence. But it would be broken again & again. Bombers were over the Münster-TAKE COVER . . . bombers were crossing the Reich frontier . . . enemy planes approaching at low altitude-beware of machine-gun attacks. In areas where the bombers were striking, radio stations would go off the air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Long Wait | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Refuge. The Parnikovs, a couple of papier-mâché old guard aristocrats, took her in. They turned against her when she visited their daughter Lilian, a long-nosed, ugly, attractive whore who lived with a killer for the secret police. "He is dreadful," said the old people. "He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Revisited | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

In 1874 he turned up in the city of Itabaiana. Now he had disciples. They built a temple. Coming into a town, they would hang an image of Christ on a tree, kneel in prayer, lift the image aloft and triumphantly enter the town to the chorus of litanies. Antonio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brazil's Great Classic | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Berlin caught another dreadful week. Four nights the heavy bombers of the R.A.F. visited the doomed city. Lowest tonnage in a single night, 1,210; highest, 2,400. Weather and artful feinting by the raiders thwarted the defenses; British losses were low.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: City in Torment | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Italy. Said the Eighth Army's General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery: "We've finally got what we wanted after hard fighting in dreadful weather." What the Eighth's men had won: a foothold on the Rome side of the Sangro River, one of the Germans' toughest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WEEK: To: Berlin, Rome, Tokyo | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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