Search Details

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


Usage:

At Yalta, Stalin for the first time dis cussed Pacific and Asiatic affairs with Roosevelt and Churchill. In the cozy glow of the Crimea, the Big Three presumably were not abashed by the change. But there was plenty of room for embarrassment.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: So Sorry, Mr. Sato | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Slammin' Sammy Snead cussed his corset and his hook. Without his corset, he wouldn't be playing golf at all; even with it, his lame back (slipped vertebra) needed two weeks of rest in every six. His hook off the tee continually landed him in tall grass, behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: With Strokes to Spare | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

The American soldiers of our rescue party cussed . . . with open admiration. . . . One of them said, "God, but.these Limies have got guts!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Limies Have Guts | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Relatives of Mark Twain last week began giving the world a new, important and frequently unflattering load of Twainiana. The Atlantic Monthly published the first of four articles based on letters (they go back to 1853 when Twain was 18) which Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote to members of his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twain at His Worst | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

When a mule cart blocked his armored car outside Adano, General Marvin ordered the cart tipped off the road. When the terrified mule began to scream, the General ordered it shot. When his staff officers objected, thinking of the effect on the townspeople of Adano, the General damned them up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Victory | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Previous | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next