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Word: curlews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever character the negotiations called for, the Great Actor had it: Mephistopheles in a baggy, black business suit; Daniel Webster, crouching behind his eyebrows; Billy Sunday, with the vox humana in his trombone voice; Bette Davis, crying like a curlew; John Barrymore, tearing an emotion to tatters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Great Actor | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...blew up switches, heaped the tracks with wrecked rolling stock, made true Berlin's wry announcement that if lost, the Narvik ore port would be useless to the Allies for a long time to come. At Narvik, the British admitted losing their 4,290-ton anti-aircraft cruiser Curlew, specially armed to shoot down just what finally sank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Indestructible Dietl | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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