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Word: howlings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among ourselves we bemoan local politics, and at taxpaying time our concerted howl can be heard from here to there, when in outrage we maintain that we have higher taxes than anybody else anywhere-and why not with the new school and hospital? But when we are attacked by an outsider, we are one cohesive family, and the aggressor had better choose his weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1951 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Hypocrites Cry & Howl. To help her, Williams composed and sent her "a handful of flowers" plucked from the garden of Scripture and made into "a little posy fit and easy for thy meditation and refreshing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Encouragement for Mary | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...children "find a kind of holy pleasure and delight in prayer, whatever be the event or issue . . . Hypocrites in their prayers . . . cry and howl upon their beds for corn and wine . . . but the prayers of God's children chiefly eye heavenly things . . . They also wait for His holy pleasure and leisure . . . confessing themselves beggars at God's door and dogs under His table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Encouragement for Mary | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Texans last week heard the wind beginning to howl in the Democratic primary campaign for Congressman-at-large. Two raucous voices bansheed out of the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voices Out of the Past | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...Force demand for such a huge buildup is apt to touch off the loudest howl the Pentagon has heard since the row over the B-36-and principally from the same source: the Navy. But if Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg fails to convince his colleagues in the J.C.S., the Air Force is ready to take it up to Defense Secretary Marshall. There the Air Force expects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Up From a Shoestring | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

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