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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are going to fight to save the American way of life, to preserve all that we hold dear. The fight will be for a free press . . . of Hearsts and Adlers, for they know that the Worker is read only by a bunch of noisy New York Jew agitators and that a New Republic will always come around to the right way of thinking when the pressure is put on. It will be for the right to assemble freely at Miss Deborah Dillingfeather's party to sample champagne and ski talk till four in the morning; for the privilege...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/8/1941 | See Source »

...bless our dear fatherland." Ex-President Dr. Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia: "Germany is defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Anxious Ending | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...colleagues began backtracking Diez's trail. It began, they said, in the Gran Hotel Paris, where police seized documents belonging to the ring's La Paz agents. There they found a check for $7,500 in Diez's favor, a slip of paper reading: "Dear Ed: Here goes the first payment; others follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Refugee Racket | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...power. The thrust into Egypt, even if not successful in capturing Suez, was at least to occupy Britain's full strength in the Near East while other Axis victories were won northeast of Suez. Now both shows had not only flopped but threatened to cost the Axis dear in power and prestige. Reports began flowing about Germans rushing to the rescue, and the Nazi official newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, announced: "The British are in error if they think that the Germans do not know their place, which has always been by the side of their brothers in arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Axis on Second Front | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...Believe me and endeavor to improve. . . ." (She rejected him.) Field Marshal Gebhard von Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision for my old age and for the welfare of my children. ... I am aware, dear lady, that you are the possessor of a considerable income. . . ." The Duke of Sussex, son of George III, to Lady Augusta Murray (1820): ". . . By all that is holy, till I am married I will eat nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Bundle | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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