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Word: armes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reformation. In Honolulu, Tattoo Artist Urbano Manipon got a jail sentence for sketching a naked girl on a minor's arm, got the sentence suspended when he added a hula skirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...American Here." The Greek colonel shook his head, put an arm around the major's shoulder. "Look," he said, "why don't you stay here tonight and have dinner with us? We can sing songs and drink and have a nice party." No? The colonel sighed and rang up his intelligence officer. Gasping protests came clearly through the receiver. The colonel cut them off: "No, no, no! Tomorrow will not do. You don't realize what's happening. I've got the American here. All he keeps saying is 'Now!' Listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Oxi Avrio-Tora! | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Elektra and Salome. Bernard Rogers' The Warrior, which was flashed on & off last year, was nonsensically dissonant. Britten's music runs from perky jigs in the woodwinds to forceful, discordant barkings in the brass. The Met's soggy chorus would need a shot in the arm to handle some of the rounds, which sound like sea chanties and are as complex as a Bach fugue. Singers found themselves singing one duet written in different keys. There were none of the arias that most Italian operas hand out like a free lunch-but the audience would find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Springfield's reputation got a glant shot in the arm Tuesday night as a result of the basketball game; but there has been little day-dreaming around the pool about this particular contest anyway. The Gymnasts took M.I.T. and Tufts over the hoops easily, and dropped decisions only to Yale (a comparatively close 31-44 meet on opening day) and a tough Williams team. The chief threat here seems to be a backstroker named Whittin, who has turned in some pretty fine times this year...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...split was seen last night as the outgrowth of the Boston group's opposition to UMT as an arm of the "bi-partisan foreign policy." the NCAC supports the Administration's foreign policy and opposes UMT because of the "dangers to democracy" which it presents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace, Boston Forces Ally As Anti-UMT Factions Split | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

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