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Word: morocco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back From Morocco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anthropologist Coon Quits, Takes Penn Research Post | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...Marrakech, Morocco, Winston Churchill, 73, was out & around after 1) a tussle with a bad cold, 2) a spell of bronchitis, 3) a plague of morbid rumors that had far-off London wringing its hands. Wife Clementine flew down with her husband's private physician. Next day the patient went motoring, dealt the rumors a crushing blow by dining in public on soup, fish with mayonnaise, veal soufflé, cake with whipped cream, tangerines and coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts for Today | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Winston Churchill, midwintering in French Morocco, went to bed with a cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Ups & Downs | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...John Jacob Astor dazzled Manhattan's El Morocco nightclub by exhibiting Wow-wow, her Chihuahua, in a new look. Wow-wow-a male-had a diamond ring on each paw and a sapphire choker around his innocent neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Died. General Jacques Leclerc (Vicomte Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque) 45, wartime field commander hero of the Fighting French, postwar Inspector-General of the French Army; in a plane crash; near Colomb-Bechar, on the Algeria-Morocco border. Brilliant, dashing, and a master tankman, Leclerc escaped from France in 1940, assumed the nom de guerre to avoid reprisals on his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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