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Word: donee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concede to Lehman and O'Dwyer." Said beaming Harry Truman: "It certainly is a most happy evening." The Old Man, Too. While the ladies whooped it up, the President launched into a few appropriate, off-the-cuff remarks. "Every woman in the great state of New York has done her best," he said with a bow to the assembled members of the Women's National Democratic Club. "That means she's gone to the polls and had the old man go too ... I will tell you that 2% more women vote than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Most Happy Evening | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...been stranded in Communist China by our Micawber Far Eastern policy . . . We cannot afford, if we want to retain a shred of prestige anywhere in Asia, to let men such as Angus Ward . . . suffer any further contumely as martyrs to our inability to decide what can and should be done. If the Chinese Communists are illiterate in the language of international diplomacy and decency, we will have to draw them a picture that they can understand. The important thing now is not to make a clever move on the chessboard of chicane, but to resolve upon a rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: To the Rescue | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

This was the weekend for reading. Vag ruffled through the reading lists he had placed on the corner of his desk and grinned. Two days of good steady reading and done with it. He took a book from the top of the pile, turned the three-way light switch all the way up, and settled down in his easy chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

Eliot has a scoring average of over there touchdowns a game for 161 points and has limited the opposition to two touchdowns and a safety. Quarterback Charley Cabot has done a good job of mixing his plays, and he has the material with which to do the mixing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powerful Eliot House Eleven To Play Unbeaten Berkeley | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

With the story by Sir Osbert Sitwell and James Mason in a lead part, this movie should have been a lot better than it is. The picture, an English export, would have done more for the reputation of British films had it remained within the sterling bloc...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

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