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Word: fredericka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Even Greece's children have their wounds. About 23,000 were carried off by the Reds to the 'people's democracies' for Marxist education. A few managed to escape and joined 17,000 refugee children in homes organized by energetic Queen Fredericka. One half-starved, trembling boy at one children's camp said: 'They came at night . . . We hid in the cellar but they dragged us out. They shot father outside the village, took mother away, and left me there.' When I asked him if he would rather be in some other place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With Will to Win | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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