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Word: acs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battlefield came Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, overall commander of the operation. Generals and admirals in varied uniforms, sun helmets, marine wool jackets, coveralls, khakis and tin hats, ac companied him on an inspection tour. The task ahead was tough - a process of digging the Japs out of one fortified ridge after another to the end of the island, twelve miles away. But the Admiral was confident. As his amphibious-force commander, Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, expressed it: all the troops have "got their tails over the dashboard and are going to town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Tails Up | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...weekly gross on Lucasta ($21,000) has hardly varied a quarter a week since the play hit Broadway, and Artkino wants him to bring the show to Moscow - an offer which he plans to ac cept as soon as the New York audiences begin to fall off. At the same time he is enjoying too much freedom and making too much money as a partner in King Bros. Productions, an independent unit with Monogram, to have to feel that his position, for the time being, is im provable. "We are making A stories on a C budget," he explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 7, 1945 | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...Venus Fixers who furnish the air force and infantry with lists of Italian art treasures which must be spared "if possible." These non-targets are rated ac cording to age, preservation and reputation of the maker (buildings like St. Peter's in Rome get top billing: three stars). The Venus Fixers approve expenditures for rebuilding (20,000,000 lire in Sicily) and get the restoration started. In charge is the U.S. Army's Lieut. Colonel Ernest Theodore DeWald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Venus Fixers | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...S/SGT.) FLOYD SMITH, AC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...show a trace of fear while being strapped into the chair. Took it just as calmly. As a matter of fact, he asked only one question. Just before they turned on the juice, he glanced at the official electrocutioner and said, 'By the way, bud, is this AC or DC?' " JOHN HARDEN

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

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