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Word: drench (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They did not drench the entire five square miles with DDT. Instead, fly expert Dr. C. H. Curran began to prowl the park, mapping it from a fly's point of view. From intimate knowledge of fly psychology, he knew what places they would consider beauty spots, where they would go for refreshment, amusement and procreation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flyless Mountain | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

They had a six-to-one superiority in the air. They had artillery to deal with the tanks which the enemy hurled recklessly at them-they knocked out 1,000 German tanks in a week. There was plenty of time. It was three months before the autumn rains would drench the Polish flatlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Counterattack | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...disappointments, dreams, hopes, despairs and resignations which had piled up during the year. Now loathing possessed him, loathing for the place, for the climate, for his work which he saw as a mere drop in this bottomless bucket of poverty, superstition and disease. . . . He watched rain drench the road and knew that everywhere humble people were praising the Lord as they paddled through the downpour. . . . But he was incapable of sharing in the jubilation of. these god-infested folk-their joys and their griefs were on too vast a scale for his participation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exiled Conqueror | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Fireman Thompson could not seem to learn. Late that night he was discovered astride a 30-foot wall in the neighborhood, hauling up a fire hose to drench another fire. Last week he was recuperating, expected soon to take a new job of fire-watching, at which he will try very hard to remember not to throw water on incendiaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Life of a Fireman | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...together." He badgered Escape's Director Mervyn Le Roy endlessly about studio technique, until Le Roy finally told him to watch through a camera finder and he would demonstrate a storm scene. As soon as Oboler had his eye glued to the finder, Le Roy cued technicians to drench him with cinema rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Busy Wunderkind | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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