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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citing the wrecking of the London conference, the N.R.A., the pig-killing, the pump priming, the court packing, and the purging as his reasons for distrusting the President, he labeled him "a brilliant amateur, fond of playing by ear."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 250 WILLKIE MEN PARADE | 10/30/1940 | See Source »

Whether or not Willkie's listeners, like Clapper, began to see what he was driving at, he kept on driving. For the home stretch he mapped a killing itinerary. Before the campaign's end he would cross and crisscross the vital regions, smashing more & more boldly into Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The Issue | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Striking at Nazi troop and supply movements, the R. A. F. swooped over the German-held French port of Lorient, shattering two transports and killing 3,000 Nazi soldiers. Off Trondheim, Blenheim bombers of the Coastal Command fired a German supply ship, set two more ablaze in the North Sea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Master Plan | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Founder Lane started National Contesters' Association to promote good will among the addicts of a pastime that offered in 1939 a potential take of $54,000,000. A general storekeeper from Mine Run, Va., he made his first killing in 1935, when in the course of three weeks he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Contesters' Holiday | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Some feared that the legend of Hemingway virility was about to develop into a new Byronism. Quipped Westbrook Pegler: "Ernest Hemingway-the fur-bearing author. . . ." Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in Spain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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