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Word: folds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kakazu Ridge, a miserable little 300-ft. fold in the earth just north of Naha, U.S. Tenth Army infantrymen found out for sure what they had suspected all along: Okinawa would come high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Okinawa's Price | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...Many times we have wanted to fold the magazine up; it is hard to remain seated on the low hummocks of satire and humor in the midst of grim events. A satirist at breakfast may get a firm grip on his day's work . . . only to have the whole thing drop out from under him when his eye reaches the casualty list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unhappy Writers | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Increasing tempo of the fighting on the war's many fronts is reflected in the six-fold expansion of facilities in the New England area for convalescence and rehabilitation of wounded war veterans. Thus Norman W. Fradd, Director of Physical Education, on leave of absence from Harvard, and now civilian consultant to the First Service Command, described the inauguration on February 5 of the new 6,000-bed reconditioning base hospital at Camp Edwards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fradd, on Leave from University, Assists Army in Veteran Rehabilitation Program | 2/16/1945 | See Source »

...There has been much talk during the last eight long years about unity. . . . It is no longer a question of the prodigal son returning to the fold, nor of the disgraced daughter being sent forth into the winter snows. That time has passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: No Reunion | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Nobody Knows. Otto Wilson watched the woman take off her chartreuse suit and fold it neatly across a chair. When he hit her she fell across the bed. He choked her until she stopped breathing; then pulled her to the floor. After he took the butcher knife from his coat pocket he lighted a cigaret and drank from a bottle of whiskey. Then he knelt, knife in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Secret | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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