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Word: laking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Free French at Lake Chad were spoiling for action. Some 1,200 miles to the north, in Libya's Fezzan Desert, the Italians were sitting in fortified strongholds. Over that long trail of rocks and sand the Free French moved to attack. The sun was broiling hot. Sometimes their trucks got stuck in the sand a dozen times in a hundred yards. Cattle driven ahead for fresh meat fell lame, had to be slaughtered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE DESERT: Those French Devils | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Like Napoleon, Adolf Hitler last week left Russia. But Hitler left only to make a speech (see p. 28). From the still-frigid shores of Lake Ladoga to the thawing quagmires of the Ukraine, his armies were proving better than Bonaparte's. The Russians kept slogging away at them. But they still held most of the great objectives that the Russians wanted before spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Not Like Napoleon's | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Sullivan's Travels (Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Sullivan's Travels (Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Sullivan's Travels (Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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