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Word: bloomin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Stoke heard about it, anger swept through the city of fire and earth. The people liked this squarejawed, plain-speaking American. If he wanted to be one of them, why, no bloke in any bloomin' office up in London had a right to interfere. Three hundred petitions ("We, the undersigned constituents of the Potteries towns . . . record our protest . . .") circulated throughout the Five Towns, bore 10,000 signatures by last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Place Like Stoke | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Blimey, wotta army!" exclaimed a wizened British corporal, just back from the Middle East, as he looked at bemedaled U.S. soldiers in London's streets, "Every bloomin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Debasing the Kudos? | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Richard Breen, the show included a skit by an unknown radio expert, who explained the mysteries of how to oscillate waves, with blackboard drawings to match. He was followed on the all-star bill by Bos'n Pen land giving a bewildered account of a baseball game in "the bloomin' yonkee stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Navy School Class Holds Private Smoker | 11/20/1942 | See Source »

...soldiers soon discovered who Mr. Bullfinch was. "Blimey, it's Winnie," they said. "Winnie's come out into the bloomin' desert." "Hey, Winnie," shouted Private Stanley Collins, an Australian, "Have you got a spare cigar?" Winnie handed over a fragrant Hoyo de Monterrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mr. Bullfinch Takes a Trip | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

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