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

...longs for one thing--to strike out onto the open road, of course. A privileged bourgeois Few mount bicycles, but the average Many have naught but a narrow strip of river bank, a muddy line of turf, to satisfy their longing. Unorganized as the meekest sweated dressmakers, they grope blindly and independently, without help and mutual encouragement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIRDS, THE BEES, AND . . . | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...their weakness the Scandinavian States began to grope for the strength of unity. In Helsinki Foreign Minister Väinö A. Tanner announced that even while peace negotiations had been going on, Finland had broached to Sweden and Norway the subject of a mutual defense pact. Denmark had been left out because the country was obviously indefensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Post-Mortem on Peace | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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