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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder whether Ken might not have won a Silver Star on our side with that Japanese outfit in Italy, if, so long ago, a little girl's mother hadn't taken exception to his almond eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Atomic Bomb | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Colby home, Bobby's mother tidied up her son's room, which was still the way he had left it-pin-up girls and airplane pictures on the wall, a radio and Popular Science on the table, his civilian clothes hanging in the closet. He had been in the North African campaign, then in the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and is now in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: A Letter Home | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...force struck. Adjacent to Pearl Harbor, mother submarines launched two-man subs. From a point due north of Oahu, carriers launched some 300 planes piloted by the best of Jap naval aviators. For the Japs it was a long chance, but well worth the gamble. Below them lay the Americans, who "had gambled upon having time for preparation that did not exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pearl Harbor Report: Who Was to Blame? | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

With his Cockney mother, Queen Rose, the young ruler will sail to his kingdom as soon as passage can be arranged. Meanwhile he is brushing up on his Malay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Royal D.P.s | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Queen Helen, handsome mother of Rumania's King Mihai, heard that she was to be reimbursed for a personal war loss, suffered when U.S. bombers raided Brasov. En route to her from one of the raiders (Colonel Marshall R. Gray, now in Seattle) was a pair of nylons, to replace those she had torn while making royal tracks out of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Notions in Motion | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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