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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman, Isn't It?" Candidate Dewey stayed noncommittal on two ticklish subjects. Eric Johnston, just back from Russia, went to Albany bubbling with enthusiasm over close commercial relations with Russia after the war. Tom Dewey listened intently, said nothing for the record. Asked whether the labor leaders he would see in Pittsburgh included

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dewey Week | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Said Pastor Low: "To take white youngsters off the city streets is ordinary, but to accept Negro youngsters in the home isn't done every day. . . . It's going to be a worth-while project for us church folk who are quite content to give money and to say prayers so long as neither bring these people too close or cause us too much personal effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Down-to-Earth Experiment | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...would really be good for "the 'pantywaist brigade' (and isn't that vulgar?)," snapped Cissie, to have a taste of war. Even Bill Bullitt "might have lost his insatiable appetite for intrigue before the present disaster" if he had "risked his young blood and guts and tears in the last World War instead of cutting dramatic capers at the Versailles Peace Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cissie Fuss | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...laundryman, who had just come in with clean towels, joined in: "If that boy of mine isn't home for Christmas dinner, I'll do a double somersault right over this chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midsummer Mood | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...When [Heavyweight Champion Staff Sergeant] Joe Louis landed in England, somebody said to him, 'Why are you so happy to be in uniform? Your country isn't so nice to your people.' Joe looked at the man and said, 'Mister, I know there are things wrong with my country, but it's nothing Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: About the U. S. | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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