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Word: brocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inventory. In Pittsburgh, the thief who broke into a gasoline station left a note for Owner Henry C. Evert: "Sorrier I brock your dorr. I got flash light. I got 55?. Thnks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...director-general is Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, wartime head of the Canadian Army's medical service. A methodical administrator who gets angry if an assistant is half a minute late for an appointment, he will stay in Geneva to get WHO's machinery moving. Said he as the assembly closed: "Our delegates are too damned cooperative - at least for the press. But some day the press will admit the dramatic news values of this international cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Clearinghouse | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...little village of Bebenhausen, in the French zone of Germany, Herr & Frau Stuckebrock lived a quiet life. Stucke-brock, 51, plowed and planted part of a onetime German Army parade ground nearby. His wife made Christmas tree decorations and other knickknacks from colored paper and pine cones. One night last week, a group of U.S., French and German police aroused them at midnight. Stuckebrock leaped for his coat. A German policeman stopped him before he got a poison vial. Under guard, the two former Nazi leaders were taken away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dead? | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Goalie John Brock had a shutout going into the final minutes of the game, when he moved from the goal and was checked into the boards by one of his own teammates. Bentley pushed the puck into the unguarded net, and Brock suffered a cut over his left eye during the tussle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Bellboys Win House Tilts | 2/28/1948 | See Source »

...Manhattan, General Dwight D. Eisenhower got a homey tribute. Veteran Broadway Producer Brock Pemberton, who went to work for the National Draft Eisenhower League, explained: "He works on me like Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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