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Word: cockee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leg Appeal. Daughter of a small-town dry-goods merchant (her mother was the belle of Cocke County, Tenn.), Grace Moore started her career at 17 by running away from a Washington music school where she had been studying singing. In Manhattan, like hundreds of other stage struck youngsters, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Exuberant Grace | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Beauregard's order did not reach some brigades, reached others only to paralyze them. Not waiting for the Napoleonic stroke, Federal troops crossed Bull Run by the easiest route-also the most lightly defended-and fell on Beauregard's left. The Confederates owed their victory not to Beauregard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Generalship, With Examples | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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