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Word: deco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lapping up quaint local customs on his round-the-world junket, West Berlin's personable Mayor Willy Brandt, like many another tourist, got himself deco rated with leis on arrival in Honolulu, later received a wide-eyed introduction, from a willing brace of island beauties, to the pasty pleasures of two-finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...peppery disciplinarian with a splendid combat record (five times cited in dis patches, twice wounded, three times deco rated in the field), he is the only French man to hold one of the four top Euro pean commands in NATO. Tough and wiry, a born soldier and a patriot, he has a flair for fast horses, smart uniforms, brandy, and resounding candor. It was his candor and his refusal to curb it that proved Marshal Juin's undoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Juin Affair | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

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