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Word: bloods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, Communist Yves Peron denounced the pact's advocates as "men who collaborated with the Nazis and who are now ready to collaborate with the Americans on the same basis." Angry anti-Communist deputies chased him to the lobby; a Gaullist slapped him across both cheeks, drawing blood with a signet ring. Reinforcements rushed up and in no time a yelling, swaying free-for-all was on. Perspiring ushers in wing collars and tail coats barely managed to restore order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Edgy Nerves | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Williams, who was voted 1948-8 "Fighter of the Year" by New York boxing writers, answered all questions in the first minute of the first round. He launched a whistling left that staggered Bolanos and drew blood from his mouth. In the second round, a jolting overhand right almost closed the challenger's left eye. Thereafter, Bolanos stumbled around the ring, as helpless against Williams as a matador fighting a bull with a knife & fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Charity | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...signal until after some injury has been suffered. (The same argument might be used against fire alarms, which do not sound until a fire has broken out.) Pain does not even give protection against mosquito bites, he argues, because it is felt only after the mosquito "has sucked your blood and perhaps infected you with malaria." Soresi does not mention the fact that after one or two mosquito bites, most people know enough to head for a screened porch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short Circuit | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...murders. One editor had even gone to jail for hinting too broadly at the truth. But when Haigh's counsel, in an effort to prove him insane, finally read his astonishing confession in court last week-Haigh said that he drank a glass of his victim's blood after each murder-the press was finally free to let the blood and acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Was a Vampire | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Twilight contains just about everything that an adolescent mind could want, in cluding characters such as Lady Orabella Sax, Arethusa Lever, Captain Elias Wild-blood and Alden Galahad Paget. What's more, Author Steen lays bare the very sur face of their natures: "Superbly nude, [Dorset Flood] lounged elegantly on the window sill"; "Plump and glossy as a young calf, there was something in [Polly Bowling] that vibrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pish Pie | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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