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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloria then roared across the East China Sea to strike Shanghai where it left 29 dead, 200,000 homeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: Sic Transit Gloria | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...with President Elpidio Quirino to register the Huks' arms in exchange for an amnesty, but the Huks turned in few arms, and fighting grew bitterer than ever. Said Governor Chioco: "We must use both our fists. In its right hand the government must have a gun. In the left hand it must have a sound social program, or the Huks will grow stronger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Needed: Two Fists | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean-Paul Sartre had won the hand of Simone de Beauvoir while you had been left at the post in the Fifth at Aqueduct. No, I think it is better just to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Last fortnight, as Trastevere prepared for the first Feast of Us Others in a decade, the district's alert Communists saw a chance to step in & take over where the Fascists had left off. But the Communists underestimated the alertness of the opposition. While they were debating ways & means to raise money for the affair, the right wing E.N.A.L. (National Organization for Workers' Welfare) blandly announced that it would sponsor the show this year, promptly received a generous donation from the anti-Communist Il Giornale d'ltalia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Feast of Us Others | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...support my mother with that!" Other girls showed mimeographed letters sent by their bosses warning them to return-or else. In front of one shop, a bunch of pickets gleefully embraced amused gendarmes, cheerfully exchanged au revoirs and à bientôts as the gendarmes left their posts for lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Popular Strike | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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