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Word: erals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green men: When they begin to get good they are transferred to the newspaper wire." Thus, radio wire services largely fail in "their obligation to write brightly, intelli gently, informatively, entertainingly." The committee found that stories for the broadcasters were sometimes grey-bearded on arrival - anywhere from sev eral hours to several days late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Summary of the News | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...ruffled spouse, normally a quiet and gentle bird, is the mate of the red-eyed crosspatch and is usually unruffled. "Ruffling" means a great clucking and fussing and gen eral emotional upset which leads to nothing much, usually, for the spouse or her mate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 19, 1948 | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Whether or not Diplomat Daniels was right (some underlings in State and sev eral Latin American diplomats thought he wasn't), the unappetizing fact was that a dictator had been given fresh prestige at a time when pressures from his democratic Central American neighbors (TIME, May 10), had begun to threaten his 16-year reign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Welcome, Tacho | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Laude: Paul Arnold Nurick, (Gen- eral Studies), Morris Pauleen, (Psychology), Arthur Hudson Schulz, (Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Degrees Approved for 293 Graduating Students Here | 10/18/1946 | See Source »

Communist guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major Gen eral Keller E. Rockey, commander of the III Amphibious Corps, radioed a message to the U.S. commander in chief in China, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ultimatum to Lwanhsien | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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