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Word: dewes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...many encore numbers, the last ones resulting from shouted requests, included most of the old favorites such as "Foggy Foggy Dew," "The Blue Tail Fly," and so forth. If there weren't rules against giving a concert on the Lord's Day in this state, I am sure the recital would have lasted into the morning. Burl Ives and the audience were enjoying themselves that much...

Author: By Bronton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...when he was running for mayor of Detroit, that Frank Murphy astonished voters with a novel slogan. He was pledged, he said, to "the dew and the dawn and the sunshine of a new era." His enemies scoffed. But the votes of one of the nation's toughest industrial cities swept red-haired Frank Murphy into office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of an Apostle | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

When the court recessed for the summer, Frank Murphy went home to Michigan. There, one day last week in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, night closed over the career of the apostle of the dew and the dawn. Stricken by coronary thrombosis, Frank Murphy, 59, died in his sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of an Apostle | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Haigh, said Defense Counsel Fyfe, had been tormented for years by a recurrent dream. In it, he saw "a veritable forest of crucifixes ... the crucifixes turned into trees. Then a man appeared collecting something from the dripping trees, which seemed at first to be rain or dew. But then it became blood." The dream, said Sir David, left his client "with an overpowering desire to have blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Glass of Blood | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...worker complained that his section of the plant was not properly ventilated. Others urged that the refinery negotiator be dumped in the nearby Houston Ship Channel, that the company provide workers with an on-the-job burlesque show; a third said that he got his pants wet from dew on weeds outside the refinery. Protesting that the union was pulling an illegal version of the sit-down strike, Crown Petroleum closed down the entire refinery for safety reasons. Later, the company offered to resume operations and make some concessions to the union. The workers decided to grieve a while longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Pen Is Mightier | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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