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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that year, and has since been used mainly as a museum. To the Palais de Chaillot this week came delegates to the third general session of the U.N. General Assembly. (Parisians called them "Les Onusiens" from Organisation des Nations Unies.)* Noticing a musee ferme sign on a glass door of the Palais, a Frenchman in overalls snarled: "What do they mean, 'museum closed?' What do they think is going on in there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Les Onusiens | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Peace? Hatred of America is systematically inculcated in Russians. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow (relates Welles) never locks its front door-because the penalties for associating with Americans are far heavier than the penalties for theft. He recalls Lenin's words: "We cannot live in peace; memorial services will either be sung over the Soviet republic or world capitalism." Welles nevertheless believes that war with Russia can be avoided forever if the U.S. will help non-Communist countries to help themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inquisitive American | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...thing that may slow down the revolving door is the knowledge that if he comes to power Charles de Gaulle can stop it altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: What's the Matter with Kelly? | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...ride and laugh and drink and play and suffer with the famous commander ... I was to know love, intimately. And I was to know, just as intimately, the unspeakable pain of losing my lover in battle . . ."t Her job was, she knew, an enviable one -"An obvious side door to the Supreme Commander's mental apartment." But it had its unpleasant features: "There were some ridiculous (though hurtful) smears on my reputation." To clear up the record, Kay announced, she was "peeling off my traditional British reserve and stripping down to naked truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...fiction editor of the New Yorker, he can make a room, a house, a whole town come to life without raising his voice. Nothing happens in Time Will Darken It that small-town readers won't immediately recognize as next-door truth, but what does happen (gossip, housework, dinner parties, childbearing) is conveyed sensitively, in clean and restrained prose. Time Will Darken It is often too loosely constructed, frequently lingers with characters who don't help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bittersweet Truth | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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