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Word: aproned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeal Gottlieb stated: "It is our duty to disprove or to prove that idea--that we are tied to the Soviet apron strings. The present situation is intolerable on the Harvard campus where despite the former sympathetic reaction we received it is now a question of condemnation of the Soviet Union, disaffiliation with the American Student Union, or a rapid death. This situation is the same in innumerable American Student Union chapters throughout the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gottlieb Initiates ASU Referendum | 1/10/1940 | See Source »

...Stepps rode up, started shooting. Smith fell dead. A bullet hit Billy Hull between the nose and the right eye, came out the back of his head to lodge in his collar. He dropped. The Stepps dashed over to finish him but, says a family chronicler, "Cindy wrapped her apron around his haid and shouted, 'Lord a' mercy, don't shoot him again, he's dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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