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Word: bended (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train comes roaring round the bend, a figure (a bird? a plane?) hurtles through the air. He races the locomotive to the broken rail. Suddenly the screen goes black. Will Superman (who looks slightly flabby in the flesh) reach the broken-rail in time to prevent the wreck? Will he weld the rail with the glare of his X-ray eyes? Or will he straight-arm the train to a stop? Find out next Saturday in the next thrilling chapter of Superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cliff-Hangers | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Administrator Paul G. Hoffman got a mash note from a first-grader back in South Bend (where his Studebaker plant stands). "My daddy is a preacher," said the letter, "and he said if we had more men like you he would not have to preach so hard. I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...South Bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Perilous Bend. Jews were grim about Kastel. Said one: "We have to attack it again. This is our Battle of the Atlantic." They had managed to run a convoy of 40 food trucks through to Jerusalem by another road, the first supplies in twelve days. In a new push, Haganah fighters retook Kastel. But Fawzi Bey Kawukji, commanding the Arabs in the north, sent artillery and armored cars to support the Jerusalem Arabs. By week's end, Arabs claimed that they again held the village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: War for the Jerusalem Road | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs, who watched the battle of the Jerusalem roads last week: "I stood on a high escarpment amid a crowd of Arab soldiers, watching their 105-millimeter Schneider howitzer lob big shells into Jewish convoys trying to round a perilous bend in the road, two miles away. A Haganah truck or armored car looked like a tiny beetle as it climbed slowly and unsuspectingly towards danger. As the howitzer fired, Arabs waited tensely for the shell to land, bony brown hands clutching at rifles, eyes narrowed to slits. Another instant and a black mushroom of smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: War for the Jerusalem Road | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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