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Word: friendless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your account of Harold Ickes' friendless state ... is touching. However, you do not have to look further than Who's Who to discover that he has at least eight LL.Ds, perhaps more by this time. This is the approved academic method of saying "I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...legions of boys gobbled him up between paper covers, price 5?. Their parents approved, for Frank was incarnate perfection ("frank and merry in nature, well in body and mind"). He was not only a superb athlete with no vices, but a protector of the bullied, a friend to the friendless. As a pitcher he could make his curve ball break either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of a Hero | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...should we not rather give them our full economic support now. Would it not be best to support those who fight on our first line of defence rather than to wait, preserving our neutrality like the people of Norway and the low countries until we find ourselves alone and friendless in a hostile world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Plea for Preparedness | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

When Czecho-Slovakia was dismembered, Poland not only did not raise a finger in protest but insisted on her share of the booty. When Poland's turn next came, she found herself isolated, friendless and helpless in Eastern Europe. The dictators strategy has been to take care of one victim at a time. A real system of collective security might well have put an end to such conquests years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Sweden Failed | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Unfellowed, friendless and alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of an Artist | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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