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Word: mauled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four rounds later the rapier began to sting. Young Billy began to maul the Big Boy. He beat him to the punch, socked him as though he had a policeman's billy in his mitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heartbreaker | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...feel a desire to speak words of good will to you, as chief of the Italian nation, across what seems to be a swiftly widening gulf. . . . We can, no doubt, inflict grievous injuries upon one another and maul each other cruelly and darken the Mediterranean with our strife. If you so decree, it must be so. But I declare that I have never been the enemy of Italian greatness, nor ever at heart the foe of the Italian lawgiver. . . . Down the ages, above all other calls, comes the cry that the joint heirs of Latin and Christian civilization must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Man of the Year | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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