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Word: erful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...severed his jugular vein, been sentenced to 20 years in prison.) Oleander ordered Lily around, kept house for her, encouraged her love affairs, helped her marry, scandalized the neighbors, dwarfed her surroundings with her tawdry queenliness -in brief, a "burning pillar of a woman." Grant Sweetland, the ne'er-do-well son of a rich St. Louis family, a drunkard who in his childhood had tortured small ani mals, was "loosely groomed, indifferently tailored," with "a soft, rather overheated look ... a cowlick which dipped damp-looking across his brow," soft, womanish hands and a silhouette which, while not paunchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No. 22 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...sidewalks faw? Maybe dey wanna have a Park Avenoo over here instead of Broadway. Leave it ta hell alone or it won't be Broadway no more. Put up a sign dat says spit out your choon gum folks, dis is old Broadway; spit er out. Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...such ultra-slick modern methods, the MNR (Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario) came into pow er in Bolivia. The rebels dashed about in Lend-Lease jeeps, invaded the homes of Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Good Neighbor Trouble | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...er mention Radar, no matter how blue the eyes...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: NAVAL TRAININC SCHOOL (Radar) | 11/19/1943 | See Source »

...er mention Radar or so I've been told...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: NAVAL TRAININC SCHOOL (Radar) | 11/19/1943 | See Source »

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