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Word: jestingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expendables this week--our dog tags have arrived! Of course Elder's displays his COOP instead of file number, Hope lists type blood, and that's L. G., not N. G. Peterson. But barring all holds, Oh Ancient One, we are now entitled to that "metal' pay you jest about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/21/1944 | See Source »

...their homes Norwegians heard of the Propaganda Minister's death from the German-controlled Oslo radio. Their grim jest: the ferryboat skipper had "made those dives to be sure the car doors were locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Lille Goebbels | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...authority on general information" he told his Jap employers, and left it at that. He made a point of plain speaking to his bosses, combining truth with tact and he got along well with the diplomats, being, in his own archaic phrase, "in nowise timorous and also capable of jest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Report from the Shadows | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Army Air Forces' accent on youth (which has brought up two brigadier generals at 36) had not yet made this jest a verity last week. But Britain's R.A.F. came close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Long Arm Grows | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...nine Jap fighters, but he rapidly outdistanced them all. Not an American plane was lost (the Japs claimed nine) and the 79 volunteers, along with Doolittle, were all nominated for the Distinguished Service Cross. Still undisclosed was the American planes's base. Unhumorously reporting a heavy Roosevelt jest, the Berlin radio solemnly announced: "Doolittle carried out the attack from the air base at Shangri-La, which was not otherwise described by Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Jimmy Did It | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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