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Word: berge (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time for a Trip. Suave Finance Minister Leon Debayle wrote Lindberg asking for figures on his departmental expenditures for use in the new budget. Lind-berg's reply was short on details. "I want to know about those dollars," cried Debayle righteously. Managua's press joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Last Man Out? | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...Idea." All this time, the Admiralty did not know that the Truculent had been lost. Divina's Captain Hammer-berg explained: "I had no idea we had struck a submarine. We all thought it was some kind of surface vessel and that there would be survivors swimming in the water. We did what I considered-and still consider-the proper thing. We launched a lifeboat and threw out life belts. The survivors we did pick up were not in any fit state to talk and we continued rescue operations without realizing that it was a submarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Off Shivering Sand | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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