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Word: breathing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 1945 the 4th Armored Division of Patton's Third Army rested, out of breath, on a bridgehead along the Main. Some 50 miles northeast, near the town of Hammelburg, was a stalag filled with Allied prisoners of war. Hammelburg was in the path of General Alexander Patch's Seventh Army, which eventually would overrun it. But slashing Georgie Patton, at the pinnacle of his career, decided to take matters into his own hands. He ordered a task force of the 4th Division to deliver the prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Patton Legend: More | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...diplomats reckon time, the job was done with breath-taking speed. Just seven days after Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes arrived in London, he sat down with Britain's Fuel Administrator Emanuel Shinwell and signed a new Anglo-American oil agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Agreement | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...Tigers could really enjoy their fan mail (see cut), and Manager Steve O'Neill could breathe easier. He had been holding his breath for three months as the Tigers grimly held their first-place grip. A down-to-earth Irishman, O'Neill had done much with little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusher | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Devil's Breath. If the superstitious Japanese had put any faith in a "divine wind" to drive off the 1945 occupiers as it had driven off Kublai Khan's in 1281, they were disappointed. True, there was a devil's breath of typhoons roaring around the western Pacific - far more numerous than the Allies had expected - but they delayed the occupation of Japan for only 48 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SURRENDER: Onto the Sacred Soil | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...gentleness, by his family's standing in their small New England town, and above all by his bickering, manless sisters, the widow Hester (Moyna Macgill) and the semi-invalid Lettie (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Lettie in particular takes care that life shall never disturb him with a breath of fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 27, 1945 | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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