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Word: filemon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only when he departed for new duty in the Middle East did he reveal his secret. He had been getting his dope from his batman, a coal black Xosa named Filemon. Filemon had been a tribal weather prophet of renown. He had joined the army only after an embarrassment involving a long-range weather forecast, a perversely unexpected dry spell, and his tribe's 1940 corn crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Expert Aid | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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