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Word: howl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East must be successfully carried out. To do this we must adopt a realistic policy that recognizes that our troops may have to be used abroad and that our navy may lose ships in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. What we must cure is the continual rhetorical howl surrounding every defense move that makes it appear a further step on the road to Berlin...

Author: By J. W. Ballantine, | Title: CABBAGES AND KINGS | 12/3/1941 | See Source »

Little Helper. In Jackson Heights, N.Y., a good provider provided: for his infant's crib, a short-wave transmitter; for his wife, a portable receiver. Result: evenings out, subject to a howl from headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 24, 1941 | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Vigorously besoming away at this wholesale housecleaning, the War Department was aware that it was raising quite a dust, hoped press and politicians would not raise a howl when some local heroes got swept out. Anticipating such squawks, Secretary of War Stimson said last week to the U.S. public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Houseclecming | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...Wind-howl sounds are much like falling bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How It Feels | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...nest. Trouble bubbled anew at Ford, where C. I. O.'s Auto Workers' union gave formal notice (as required by Michigan law) of intent to strike at the Lincoln plant, at Highland Park, at gigantic River Rouge. What worried Knudsen as much as anything was the howl, getting louder & louder, for legislative action to prevent strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Nothing Serious | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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