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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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For weeks during the spring and early summer Japanese armies had pushed along the Hangchow-Nanchang Railway. Their two great objectives had been: 1) a safe supply line by land all the way from Shanghai to their Indo-China bases; 2) destruction of air bases from which U.S. planes could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: Strain Showing? | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

The disease has risen from 27th to 10th place among causes of death, and it is now killing more older women than tuberculosis. From 2% to 3% of all living Americans will eventually die of diabetes.* What is the explanation? Why are more & more people unable to use or store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diet or Die | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Most exciting story was that of Canadian Press's Ross Munro, 28. Crouching in an assault barge, he was beached directly in front of Dieppe, under fire so withering that his boatload was unable to get ashore. Machine guns in Nazi positions on the cliffs overhead rained bullets into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Assignment at Dieppe | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Saboteurs had recently wrecked a train, killing Nazi troops: Nazi officials had carefully selected 1,600 prominent Dutchmen as hostages. Their time was up. Continued the voice:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: They Who Were Killed | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

In India, mob turbulence in Bombay and Delhi rose to such heights of violence that British Imperial troops for the first time had to join police in efforts to quell it. The unofficial death tell since the mass struggle for Indian independence started on Sunday mounted to 32 with the...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 8/12/1942 | See Source »

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