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Word: burnes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must all-and forever-remember Pearl Harbor. But also, and with ineffaceable memory, let every father and mother, every son and daughter, every husband and wife, every brother and sister, let every American burn into his or her soul the watchwords and the battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1942 | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Plane that STS before you burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is the Fleet? | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Nebraska's Senator George W. Norris, 80: "Their [Japanese] cities are open to attack . . . that will burn them off the face of the earth, and that is what they are coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Hot Talk | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...finally from U.S.-British hands. In the small of the night, Japanese soldiers poured into the International Settlement and along the famous Bund. A Japanese destroyer eased up to the British river gun boat Peterel, fired three red warning lights, a minute later opened fire and set it burn ing blackly. Then the destroyer proceeded 100 yards downstream and captured the U.S. gunboat Wake, which had been partially dismantled and was being used merely as a consular wireless station. The flag of the Rising Sun was unfurled from its aftermast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Fort by Fort, Port by Port | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...looked into Peabody's eyes off the field they were open and friendly and, set in that boyish face of his, reminded you a little of a baby's. But once the whistle has sounded, those eyes contracted into slits, a sort of green flame seemed to burn in them and you knew you were up against a man who wasn't fooling. I hope I never find myself in a trench with fellows coming at me with bayonets. But if I ever do, I want to have a guy like Peabody with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DICK HARLOW REVEALS INSIDE STORY ON STAR 1941 GRID TEAM | 12/13/1941 | See Source »

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