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Word: hewed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South East Asia Command, wore a Monty-style beret but never the insignia of his rank (lieutenant colonel). When he came home last summer, he no longer seemed so positive that Socialism had all the answers. His "Good Morning!" column in the Daily Mail didn't exactly hew to the Tory line, but it sometimes took a micrometer to measure the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Onward & Rightward | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...decry as "the ape of God" all those who do not hew to the party.line is ecclesiastical dictatorship at its apogee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...problem of socially harnessing nuclear energy is not different in kind from that presented by each technological advance in turn since the day when man first bound stone to stick to help him hew wood and grind corn and then realized it could also serve to bash his neighbor's brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...intends to continue his own researches (spectroscopy, the structure of solvents), to stiffen Rice's entrance requirements, and to keep sports a college sideline. Says he: "Football should serve principally to provide necessary physical relaxation." His first big task: to get the people of Houston (who pronounce it hew-ston) to pronounce his name how-ston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Houston to Houston | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

There was another factor. For several months a British Brigadier, Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, had lived with the Parti sans as head of an Allied military mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Area of Decision | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

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