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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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All these facts slim, faultlessly uniformed Somervell knew as he made his urbane, Southern-drawling way around Britain, wearing out officers and civilians by the smooth pace of his 17-hour days. No important military man in the British Isles can have doubted that of all the U.S. Army-Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, SUPPLY: S.O.S. | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

A publicity man burst into a War Production Board meeting to give Donald Nelson the news that, just when Nelson had finally succeeded in killing all civilian hopes for rubber, the President had resurrected them. Unbelieving Donald Nelson called the White House, learned that the President had indeed uttered the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three More Wars | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Eli sometimes showed off, sometimes said such things as: "I am addicted to verbiage." But at one point he was almost noble. He tried to make a sacrifice by confessing the killing, thus clearing Madeline and even Cullen. He would have died, he said, if Madeline had known about it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Guy's Lady | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Butcher and Bolt. It was Winston Churchill who gave Britain's Commandos their name.- After Dunkirk, when these special units were first formed, Churchill remembered his Boer War days and the Boer Commandos: irregular, ill-trained, but well-equipped bands of 300 to 400 Boers, with less regard for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Why Are We Waiting? | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

This Gun For Hire (Paramount) might have been designed for the carnage trade. A razor-edged melodrama, it possesses some of the most calculated killing to come out of Hollywood since the movies discovered gangsterdom in the early '30s.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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