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Word: barse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adults themselves joined the feast. Women with Pekingese and men in Homburgs unabashedly lined up to get some chocolates. At one stall, a mustachioed army major ordered four Mars bars, gravely tucked them into a folded Sunday Times and marched away. One Londoner stormed: "It's good to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: I Like Pink | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

"Harvey and I sit in the bars," reminisces Elwood P. Dowd dreamily, "and we have a drink or two and play the jukebox. Soon the faces of the other people turn toward mine and smile . . . Then I introduce them to Harvey."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Rabbit with a Mission | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Part of the Bargain. He was not a prisoner long. The Spaniards had neglected to take away his escape kit, which contained a small, highly tempered saw. "The bars in that jail were brass," Chuck says. "The saw ate right through them." He and his pals "fooled around Spain for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

No Champion when it comes to realistic boxing scenes (TIME, April 11), Set-Up packs its own sharp, unexpected punches. The story, based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March, is fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Alas, how hope for freedom, no bars

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coping With the Flood | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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