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Word: ll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the Stove. Like people everywhere, Freedom's citizens had their worries. Said John Kay: "I don't like a man in debt and over his head like our government is." He worried about Russia too: "When they get China they'll come after us." But for all that, almost everyone agreed with Gail Abrell that Freedom had plenty to be thankful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: The Christmas Cantata | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...case, the baby would probably ascend the throne as George VII (the present King was known as Albert when he was a prince). Ebullient Princess Margaret pointed out the only possible drawback to the new name. "Now," she said, "I suppose they'll call me Charlie's Aunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Christening | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...getting into an inflationary situation. I have a wife and child, and my pay is 14 pesetas [about 50? on the free market] a day. I can't manage much longer. I hope to go to France. I hate to leave Spain, but I'll go anywhere I can make a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Help Wanted | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...shake off her fate. And she can speak lines of questionable worth with a childish innocence that takes the curse off their calculated pathos-as when she says during a picnic with her husband: "Then I've lost another day. I don't suppose I'll ever find it." (The husband-one of those thankless, long-suffering bystander parts which might have been merely sappy-is ably played by Mark Stevens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...graduate," said Vag. "You see, I'd like to see my name in Latin. But you understand, I want to come back for my twenty-fifth Class Reunion, for at that time I plan to make my big Gift to the University. With a leave of absence, I'll be sure of coming back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/17/1948 | See Source »

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