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Word: chocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were good diplomatic reasons. The U.S. had never signed the Montevideo Treaty of 1933 which recognized the right of asylum, long traditional in many Latin American countries, but now outmoded in most of the world. Salvadorians, chock-full of U.S. democratic propaganda, did not understand the refusal. They took it as one more example of U.S. support for dictators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: No Sanctuary | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...women are concerned there are two types--Genus Coed and Phylum Bostoniensis. Boston and New England are chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...

Author: By L. ESPRIT Gauiols, | Title: Harvard Life Proves Not to Be All Work and No Play | 3/3/1944 | See Source »

Home last week from a 20,000-mile jaunt through the U.S., South America and England, bland, bulky Paul Weeks Litchfield, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s big-framed president, was chock full of war and postwar plans. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Goodyear Stretches Out | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...women are concerned there are two types--Genus Coed and Phylum Bostoniensis. Boston and New England are chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...

Author: By L. ESORIT Gaulois, | Title: Social Life Vital Part of Students' Initiation Into "The Fellowship of Educated Men" | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

Against an Axis attempt to take Gibraltar, seal the western Mediterranean and thus neutralize many of the benefits of the North African invasion, the Allies could do very little in advance. Gibraltar and its harbor are already chock-full of defenders. But, at the cost of resources sorely needed in Tunisia, they had to prepare to offset the loss of Gibraltar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Franco and the Rock | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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