Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In short-to make doubly sure everything you read in TIME is both knowing and accurate, we have harnessed the world's briefest and most concise magazine to one of the world's largest newsgathering staffs. And the day-to-day reports of our correspondents add up to...
The yellow balls of German tracers dropped in from three sides. The red balls of oar machine guns grew less & less, seemingly overwhelmed. We marched on, knowing that we had not surprised the enemy. We would have to fight for the hills in daylight.
Weakened by disease and defeat, U.S. prisoners of war in Japanese camps are dying at the rate of 50 per 1,000 per year. Last week the War Department gave out the names of an additional 291, bringing the total since Bataan and Corregidor to 929 dead of such diseases...
"Hell," said the navigator on one of the convoy vessels, "you can't help knowing you're going to win the war when a thing like that comes up from nowhere and is on your side!"
Arithmetic of Destruction. The Jap ships were dead ahead of them. Zeros were flashing from nearby clouds, scud streaming off their wings. Torpedo 8's plummeting craft were so low "a man could hang his hat on them." Twenty thousand eyes, thought Swede, must be watching from the decks...