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Word: maned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breath, you name and apologize for Truman-the Man of the Year. . . . One may as well say the flea is king of beasts because he rides in the lion's mane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...remembers the texture of things - a squirrel's fur, the thickening of a horse's mane in the frost, the glint of armor and the impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eastern Diary | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Actually John Lewis, having shown again that he can threaten the nation with cold homes and idle blast furnaces by a casual shake of his shaggy mane, was merely content to rest on his laurels for a while. The public interest coincided with his own because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Lion Relents | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...these items would be available in any quantity before Christmas, but the words rolled on the tongue like bubble sum. Some U.S. citizens even enjoyed knowing that there were no more restrictions on cotton linters, natural resins, green bone glue, horse mane hair and an insecticide named pyrethrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECONVERSION: The Lovely Future | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Isabella received Minister Sickles in her negligee, her huge breasts half-bare, her mane of hair hanging down to her waist. She had had as many men in her life as Sickles had had women-an indiscriminate series of ambassadors, footmen, Italian tenors, cabinet ministers, army privates. Sickles and Isabella reacted like magnet and iron. As a sop to convention, Isabella forthwith converted him to Catholicism, arranged for him a marriage of convenience with one of her ladies in waiting. In Madrid they began to call him "Yankee King of Spain." It was all very perplexing to his friends back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee King of Spain | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

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