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Word: blockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell you, that's a terrible feeling swinging there as helpless as a turkey with his neck on the block. You feel like you've got targets painted all over you. I waved vigorously, jutting out my teeth at them to look like Tojo, and making other gestures of friendship and victory. I grinned and jabbered at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Safe at Last | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...nearly four years neutrality has served the Turks and served the Allies. Now that it threatens to block the way for Allied armies, a choice must be made again. When the choice is made, Sükrü Saracoglu will probably present it to the world. Standing between grim, retiring President Ismet Inönü, Turkey's unquestioned leader, and brilliant, chronically ill Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu, Saracoglu is their front to other nations' statesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Choice | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Because of these pitfalls, many anesthetists have been reluctant to take up the method. In the Journal of the A.M.A. last week, Drs. Nathan Block and Morris Rotstein told how some of the dangers may be avoided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Caudal Problems | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...trying, under this cloak, to foster their own interests and sabotage the De Gaulle-Giraud union. There is growing evidence that certain interests, fearful of public opinion in favor of General de Gaulle, have deliberately set out to guide, control and change that public opinion as the chief stumbling block in the consummation of their aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Expediency Again | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...Land? A land route to the Balkans could be followed if Turkey came into the war. It would have to be swift, for Axis armies are poised on the far side of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus and could block the Allies at these straits if they reached. them first. A land advance could succeed probably only with Turkey's permission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Next Step? | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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