Search Details

Word: cunningness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

"There were land mines and booby traps. Most of the booby traps were crude, such as a floorboard obviously raised to accommodate a detonator, and not at all up to the fictional standard of Japanese cunning. However, a few men were killed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Janfu | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

Fortunately, Mr. Acadian, despite his slack-lipped way of called the Yard, the "Yard," comes up with a solution, and a darn good one it it, too. A football game with Yale why not? I have the cutes raccoon coat, and a cunning little hip flash knocking around somewhere in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

The platoon was organized two months ago to pound into green soldiers the necessity of always being on guard. Says Major General Charles L. Scott, wrinkled, sunburned boss of the Armored Force Replacement Training Center: "The German platoon is the best single thing we have done to make fighting men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Swastika over Fort Knox | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

A name is turned with mine in cunning sheath

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Prophecy | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

For almost three years the State Department and the Admiral had been a finger-snap away from the brief act of violence in which the U.S. would take over Martinique. By cunning diplomacy on each side, by inexhaustibly ingenious tactics, the relations were prolonged again & again & again. Each time editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Rupture | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | 265 | Next