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Word: colds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, the council will continue its deliberations without Russia's answer. Any resolution calling on Russia to lift the Berlin blockade was sure to run straight into a Russian veto. Said a visiting U.S. officer from Germany: "It's going to be a cold winter for the boys in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Piece of Paper | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...Cold. Ike donned horn-rimmed spectacles to read his 20-minute inaugural address, stopping once to snuffle into a handkerchief because of a bad cold. The new president's address was proper, unexciting, and meant to reassure everyone that he had laid down his sword & shield. Said Eisenhower: "If this were a land where the military profession is a weapon of tyranny or aggression-its members an elite caste dedicated to its own perpetuation-a lifelong soldier could hardly assume my present role. But in our nation the Army is the servant of the people ... Hence, among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The General Takes Command | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...hold its own incumbents in power. This won't be a simple job. Republicans may be able to even the score by beating Democratic Senators in the West and particularly in the South, which is as cranky this year as a model T Ford on a cold day, and just as noisy...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: The Campaign | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

...there are not 45,000 Harvard and Dartmouth grads in this area coming to the game. For the first time in many a November, the football-lover, who usually laughs at the boys from the Squa-yah, is planking down cold cash to come and see and cheer the Harvards. Or maybe the Dartmouths...

Author: By Samuel Spade, | Title: Highly Touted Indians Boast Versatile Backs, Speedy Ends | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

...when Betsy Fauntleroy, 16, got him to the point where he popped the question. Betsy turned him down cold, not once but twice; and not even a letter to her father helped. Not until Washington began to wrestle with his hopeless passion for the married Sally Fairfax is there any sign of another serious love affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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