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Word: mouths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battalion commanders: the Somme, the Argonne, Sedan, Amiens, the Meuse. Those Allied objectives were reminders-if the German command needed any more -of how completely Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley had reversed their classic Schlieffen plan of enveloping France.*Now the Eisenhower-Montgomery wheeling movement, anchored at the mouth of the Seine, was developing arcs that expanded toward Belgium and Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Ration's Poniards | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...main crossroads in Cahmboise we heard the clop-clop of horses, and the sad, sweet music of the mouth organ. It was Home on the Range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: In a Norman Village | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...horses passed-two dozen German cavalry mounts ridden now by U.S. infantrymen. The man with the mouth organ stopped playing as he passed. He winked and grinned. 'Hiya, Yink,' he said "Texas was never like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: In a Norman Village | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...There will be a strange reluctance on the part of every German to accept any post of responsibility under the Allied military authorities. A Nazi equivalent of our word 'quisling' will be invented and whispered from mouth to mouth, and when one or two of them have been found beaten to death with the most fiendish tortures, every 'good' German will know what it means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Without End? | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...wandering around the garden with a cloth to her mouth. She was bleeding in the gums and all her teeth loosened . . . and she was partly hysterical. And all the chickens were up in the trees flapping their wings which sort of added to the unreality. Paula, (10), was quiet and subdued. Young Andrew, (3), had a mouthful of dirt from the blast and was crying miserably. Funny about Andrew-he wouldn't go through the house to the street and for three days he howled if you took him near a house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ENGLAND: The Blitz and One Man | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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