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Word: mows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...give me that lieutenant routine." That was enough to split the sides of the soldiers. But what really spilled them into the aisles was Charlie's comment as an unidentified plane zoomed overhead: "Here they come, fellows," cracked Charlie, "those yellow-belly bastards. I'll mow 'em down!" Posing behind an advanced gun emplacement, Charlie observed: "I can't see any Japs, but I can smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: World's Greatest Audience | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...limited by lack of methanol and acetone, which, like explosives, are made from starch. But in spite of our "vast and untouched" resources it is the United States and not the Axis which feels the pinch. We have been depending mainly on sugar as the source of the mow scarce starch, gathering only one per cent of the possible yield from corn. An attempt not so long ago to industrialize potato starch was ruined by foreign competition which our neighborly State Department encouraged. Germany, on the other hand, has stocked up with the stuff by barter, and Japan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Untouched If Not Vast | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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