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Word: cleverer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divisions into Italy as possible, hold them there to prevent their use on other fronts. Unfortunately, the Allies have never had enough troops to complete the job ("at no time in the Italian campaign have the Allies had any but slight superiority in numbers") and the Germans have been clever at getting out of traps. Nevertheless the Germans have lost almost 200,000 men in casualties, now have 28 divisions engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Forgotten Front | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...soldiers had been captured in Herr Hogen's farm buildings. Herr Hogen's stolid wife admitted giving them food and clothing. One of the soldiers was Packbier's brother. With a rush of guttural oratory (which had to be laboriously translated), Hogen and Packbier made their clever defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OCCUPATION: Astute Defense | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...obscure Indian tribes, having wandered across Asia and Europe, turned up in Britain. Englishmen thought the swarthy nomads were Egyptians, shortened the word to gypsies. Gypsies did not mind. To them all gorgios (nongypsies) were boro dinellos (big fools) to be tricked and preyed on by the jinni Romanis (clever gypsies). Except for the contacts inevitable in dukkering (fortunetelling), dooking gri (casting a spell on horses to lower their value and price) or drabbing baulor (poisoning a farmer's pigs so that the gypsies could buy the carcasses cheaply for food), gypsies wanted no part of the respectable gorgios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Housebroken Gypsies | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...Dewey is a clever lad. His cleverness is of the type that makes this old-line Republican ready to accept the quip that you can like Tom until you begin to know him well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1944 | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...Clever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1944 | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

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