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Word: infidelities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days appropriately broke right into the hottest summer that Egypt remembers. The damp caused by the flooding Nile spread low clouds like woolen blankets over Egypt. Tempers rose, gharry drivers and porters spit abuse at one another, fists went into action on the slightest provocation. Even unfasting, infidel Christians seemed unduly cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Fast of Ramadan | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Added Francis E. McMahon, Notre Dame professor of philosophy and head of the Catholic Association for International Peace: "As the Crusaders once stormed Jerusalem to rescue the Holy Land from the infidel, so American flyers bombed Rome to drive out the Fascists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VATICAN: Unusual Affliction | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Maltese Knights held her against the Turks. She became the bulwark of Christendom against the Infidel, grew to be an even stouter bulwark when Grand Master Jean de la Valette Parisot built the fortress city which was named after him and which stands today on the north shore like an amber rock pile in the Mediterranean's sapphire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Bulwark of Christendom | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

These men devoted themselves to perfecting the technique of showing everything exactly. They left nothing for the audience to supply. The precise representation of concrete things became a fetish. Unfortunately their holy war was successful; Realism has become the gospel of the American theatre, virtually without a single infidel to preach against it. The result: audiences have become mentally poverty-stricken. They have been taught to believe what they see, and only what they see. If they do not see it or have not seen it, it cannot exist. Imagination is employed only for the uses of obscenity...

Author: By William E. Robinson, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 10/22/1942 | See Source »

...scrimped so that his son could learn German and become a big salesman some day. Result: because he knew German, young Corre was sent to the Maginot Line, killed. ^ Odette kept the butter & eggs store and wore green-black clothes and looked pious and demure. "Actually she was an infidel and a Socialist." The milk she sold was bluish and watery; her eggs "bore unmistakable evidence of having been near hens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamins & Spinach | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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