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Word: conveys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Billy the Kid, young Buetel acts like a high-school second lead. Walter Huston does perhaps his greatest acting, not a little of which lies in his ability to convey to the audience that he thinks the whole thing is impossibly bad. Thomas Mitchell's friends were sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hughes's Western | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

Opposing forces have been engaged in "sporadic encounters" since Jan. 29, when a force of Japanese torpedo planes attacked a U.S. task force on a convey mission south of Guadalcanal...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/9/1943 | See Source »

...MacARTHUR's HEADQUARTERS, Australia--Allied troops closed from three sides today on Sanananda Point, last Japanese foothold in the Papuan area of New Guinea, as remnants of an enemy convey which was battered for three days at Lae were reported fleeing north-eastward...

Author: By United Press., | Title: Over the Wire | 1/12/1943 | See Source »

...this complacent dream was rudely shattered. From London came a strongly worded statement-long overdue-that Britain "deplores" President Castillo's course and was "astonished" that his government had attempted to convey a different impression. The London statement was quickly seconded by the U.S., which declared itself in full accord with Britain's views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Argentina Rebuffed | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...shattered and depleted convey nosed into Kola Bay, down to the Tulema River, and Murmansk. Crewmen on Haskell's ship, who were lounging around the mess galley while awaiting their boat's turn to be unblessed, were suddenly shaken by a terrific explosion. Rushing on deck to man the guns against air attack, they found that the explosion, which struck about number four batchway, was not a bomb but a floating mine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seaman Haskell Back from Convoy Duty to Murmansk | 12/2/1942 | See Source »

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