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Word: caponized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plenty of Nazi soldiers rather disliked the Nazi regime, scorned Göring for a capon, spoke of the whole hierarchy as a crowd of racketeers: but there was not one who did not love and adore Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: European Window | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...hours moving ten tons of wreckage to free a girl: they had had to use their bodies as struts to hold up the debris while tunneling. Said the King: "You have done grand work." Said George Pitman: "It's all in the day's work, Sir." Wally Capon, 54, raised a laugh by saying to the Queen: "Ever since the war started I have had my leg pulled about being an old man, but when a job like this comes along, Your Majesty, it is the old ones who can show the young ones what to do." Grimy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Week | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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