Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emplacements were on two hillocks, dubbed Elephant Hill and Edinburgh Castle, which stuck up like two pimples in the plain. Others were on the ridges behind, where TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden also stood and watched one phase of one day's battle. Belden wrote in his notebook...
...compensations. He is perhaps at his best in communicating the simple grandeur, purposefulness and comradeship of a great number of vessels spaced and moving upon constant danger. H. M. Corvette is a quick cleaning-up, obviously, of spasmodic, hurried jottings in a notebook. It promises England a fine writer, when more time is had for writing...
...United States labored up the long ramp to the Speaker's dais, leaning on the arm of his military aide Major General Edwin M. Watson. He grasped the edge of the reading stand with one big hand, discarded his thick mahogany cane, slapped down his old black notebook. For two minutes his audience-the Congressmen, the diplomats, the Cabinet, the dignitaries and plain people in the galleries-applauded for this stouthearted man who cannot walk, yet does...
...strictly Minnesota's. Governor Stassen went to the Capital, he explained, in an attempt to get manpower action from Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt and Draft Boss Major General Lewis B. Hershey. Getting promises but no action, Governor Stassen scribbled an eleven-point plan in a borrowed notebook, telephoned it from his hotel to St. Paul. Said he: "Either we are going to have . . . more women employed ... or we are going to have disorder. That's what we've been having...
...designs Russians scribbled on paper and tried to pass off as an alphabet. Now a slim fellow over in another corner, with a thin, nervous voice, was speaking very fast--punctuating his talk with short, indrawn laughs. Then everyone laughed again. This time Pag smiled weakly, closed his notebook, and shuffled his feet impatiently as he heard the muffled tones of the hour bell...