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Word: flags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going the rounds in Germany (and leaking out through Switzerland) was a sour little joke: Question-What is the only secret weapon that can save Germany? Answer-A long pole with a white flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: Gloom in the Reich | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Lowell House won the Minute Man Flag for inter-House War Bond competition during the Fourth War Loan Drive. The banner which now hangs in the Lowell Dining Hall will go back into competition in the coming term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Recruits Bond Buyers, Blood Donors | 7/14/1944 | See Source »

Soon a white flag appeared at the tunnel's mouth. The German lieutenant who held it stepped stiffly into the open. He turned right and dipped the flag, turned left and dipped the flag, faced General Eddy and dipped the flag. It was all very precise and formal. Eddy beckoned him to come over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The General's Compliments | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

With bloodstained flag of Rising Sun I'd like to conquer the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Look Out, Chicago | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Every day for a month Muscovites young & old had jammed October Hall to the doors. They followed the play on giant dummy boards suspended over the flag-decked stage. Generals, admirals and diplomats had taken time off to attend. Overflow crowds heard move-by-move reports over loudspeakers. Reporters and newsreel cameramen packed the front rows. Broadcasters flashed round-by-round accounts to the fighting fronts. Moscow newspapers rushed out extras with the latest standings and scores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red World Series | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

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