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

...that week so I went on working. Alerts were steady and we were taking spells on the aircraft-spotting tower. Well, at one particular imminent-danger warning I was on the tower and over a flying bomb came. She missed and fell and I thought, "Christ, right smack on Hillford Garden,"-that's where we live. So when the imminent passed I went to the gate and got on the phone to a neighbor and there was no answer. Just then a lorry pulled in and the driver said: "Don't worry, Mate. I hear it was smack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ENGLAND: The Blitz and One Man | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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