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Word: ende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since war's end, Konni Zilliacus had been zooming and buzzing around the Labor government's left flank like a gnat harassing an elephant. Several times, the great beast had flapped its ears in protest. Last week it hauled off with its trunk and struck. Konni Zilliacus, M.P. for Gateshead, longtime Fabian and fellow traveler, was formally read out of the Labor Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Fight for the Soul | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...morning at week's end, fugitives from Shanghai arrived at Lunghua airport, found the field deserted, a brief message scrawled in chalk across the schedule board. The message read: "Evacuated at midnight." That afternoon, some 750 miles to the south in Hong Kong, an American pilot who had flown one of the last planes out of Shanghai shrugged and said: "Looks like we'll all be going home soon. We're running out of cities to evacuate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Defend the Graveyard | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...week's end, Michael was weary and his stomach muscles were sore, but otherwise he was in good health and was sneezing only once every eight seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Record for Britain | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Deacon") Aylesworth, whose father was the college president. They whooped it up together, on the gridiron and on & off the campus. But it wasn't long before Ben said goodbye to Aylesworth (who later became president of the National Broadcasting Co.) and pedaled back to Parnell. That was the end of his academic education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...plenty," said the saint. " 'Tis not," said the snake. "It is," said the saint. "I say it is not," said the snake, and to prove the point he crawled into the box, whereupon St. Patrick clapped down the lid and snapped the lock and that was the end of the last snake in Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pat or the Pleistocene? | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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