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Word: attached (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the first fire engine pulled to a stop on the corner and the smokefighters opened water valves, a gush of muddy water immediately smacked three students in the face. Someone had forgotten to attach the hose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Firemen Wrestle Tiny Blaze In Chimney as Mob Exults | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

Freddie's job is comparatively simple, for a ferret. His bosses tie a length of fishing line to his collar; to the fishing line they attach another length of electrical wiring. Then, while Freddie is held at one end of a piece of pipe designed to protect wires, another man, with a dead rabbit and an air compressor, goes to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Freddie the Ferret | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...government. Said he: "There has occurred in Venezuela one more action like those which our democracy [throughout the Americas] has been suffering. Who is the director of this machine of oppression set on the march in our continent? What is the meaning of the notorious presence of a military attaché of a foreign embassy in one of the Caracas military barracks while the insurrection was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: What Coup? | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Such problems are nothing new to the HTW, which had to cope with the same thing last year in rehearsals for Henry the Fourth. From that production they have learned two lessons--to wear rubber soles on your sandals and to attach your blades firmly to the hilt; a telling blow from the weapon of Monday Weisgal '45 sent his sword hurting into the wings during the climax of one show last year, where it flattened Jan Farrand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Swords in Sundry Directions . . . | 11/27/1948 | See Source »

Thirteen conspirators, it was soon announced, had been rounded up. Also accused as a plotter was 50-year-old John F. Griffiths, businessman, ex-college instructor (University of Southern California), and onetime cultural attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, the state-owned radio called for a one-day general strike of protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: To Defend the President | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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