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Word: facedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driver fell asleep at the wheel and smashed into a streetcar. Adenauer's face was badly injured, still bears scars. While he was still in the hospital, Cologne's mayor died, and a delegation of the city council dropped in to inform Adenauer of the news. "They sent a delegation," Adenauer grins, "because they had heard of my severe head injuries. They wanted to make sure I was still normal." Satisfied that he was, the city council elected him mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man from the Wine Country | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...year-old Handa decided that his search was over. On the telephone poles in Maebashi's dusty streets appeared placards advertising Warau Kamisama, the Laughing God. Said Handa: "I was fascinated. I have always felt that man is most human when he has a smile on his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Laughing God | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...turned over to a notorious smuggler named Roberto Maese, who moved it across the border to El Paso. Each deal had at least two profitable angles: 1) it evaded the export tax; 2) the bank sent out old-style silver pesos, whose metal value is now higher than the face value, and replaced them in its own accounts with paper money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pieces of Silver | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...hards of mathematical chance that one of them was going to do it again. As far west as San Francisco last week, Dow-Jones tickers carried the inning-by-inning score to boardrooms, and fans clustered around radio sets as St. Louis, nursing a two-game lead, came face-to-face with the Dodgers in a three-game series in Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Man | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Last week, musicians who saw the same expression on Producer Gillis' face again had no trouble guessing whose score they would find on their rehearsal racks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man Who Invented Music | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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