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Word: loosed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the rail guarding the summit of Yosemite's misty, snow-swollen Vernal Falls, 21-year-old Orville Loos, just out of the Navy and still in uniform, gaped -with the other tourists, listened to the mighty cataract pounding fearsomely on the jagged boulders 320 feet below. It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Decision | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Then he heard a scream. Eleven-year-old Keene Freeman, son of famed Washington, D.C. neurologist Dr. Walter Freeman, had escaped his father's eye for a moment, and slipped into the racing torrent while trying to retrieve a canteen. He was headed for the falls. As the boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Decision | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

RETURN TO THE VINEYARD - Mary Loos & Walter Duranty-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Scenarist Loos and Reporter Duranty speculate on what happens when the surviving citizens of a Nazi-ruined village go back to it after the war. The citizens of Vineyard, a winegrowing village, live in caves, work hard to restore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Recent & Readable, Feb. 19, 1945 | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Elsa Maxwell fluttered Hollywood last week with a party celebrating French liberation. She had sent out the invitations in early August, while the Allies were still in Normandy. Said she: "I just had a hunch-anyway, France is very close to my heart. Some of my best parties were given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Discoveries, Homebodies, French Footnotes | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Harvard's lineup found Thomas as fullback, Bud Rowell and Frank Holcomb at wing, Johnny Loos and Captain Ausnit at the three-quarter position, Jon Pritchard playing his final game at stand-off half. Commander Keith Kear of the New Zealand Royal Navy and the Law School as scrum half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUGBY TEAM IS VICTORIOUS, FINISHES UNDEFEATED SEASON | 6/2/1944 | See Source »

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