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Word: butts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inescapable fact was as blunt as a rifle butt. From France's current budget of 385 billion francs ($7,700,000,000), the armed forces (current size: 1,400,000) have been skimming off 175 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: How Big An Army? | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...hardest. They wouldn't let anybody touch me to help me. Every day they blindfolded me and threw me in a truck to take me into town, then questioned me all day. They would make me walk on my bad leg, and shove me with a rifle butt to make sure I did. After ten days I was getting pretty ripe-I don't know how they stood the smell. Finally they let a doctor wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Back from the Grave | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...stepped down onto U.S. soil agleam with 24 stars, variously placed, all glittering: four on his shiny steel helmet, four on each shoulder loop, four on each collar tab, and four on the black butt of the automatic pistol at his hip. On the side of his helmet was the painted insigne of the armored divisions; on the front, below the stars, was the Third Army's "A"-which, in photographs, looked like a fifth star. On his chest was a quintuple corsage of campaign ribbons; on his left sleeve, five overseas bars and four wound chevrons. He wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: 24-Star General | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Sample question: "How many days [until June], 0 Catiline?" The answer (to be delivered in a military manner): "[The exact number of] days and a butt, O noble Catiline, and may the great God in Heaven speed them more quickly by the great Corporal Jupiter, and may the coming days be more joyous, but not for me, sir! May your classes be no soirees, and your sorrows negligible, and on your leave may there be some beautiful femmes, some canoes, lots of skags [cigarets], full moons, and plenty of Coca-Cola; hot darn-but not for me, sir!" Woody seldom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Long Grey Line | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

While I watched, a civilian tramped across the bodies and dealt Mussolini's shaven head a terrific kick. Someone pushed the twisted head into a more natural position again with a rifle butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Death in Milan | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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