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Word: objectionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody in Flatbush blamed Leo and Laraine for flying to Juarez, Mexico, to get her a second divorce with no strings attached, or for driving back to El Paso to be married. But Los Angeles' Superior Judge George A. Dockweiler, who had granted Miss Day's first divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Don't You Want Me to Be Happy? | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Discussion of another proposal revealed the vicious circle of reasoning underlying the whole manpower shortage debate. When some repatriated Italian prisoners of war indicated that they would like to return to Britain and work on the farms, the semi-official objection was that Britain's food shortage was so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bad News | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

There was always the objection that Denmark's national pride would stand in the way of a sale. But U.S. military men thought they had an answer: Denmark owes U.S. investors $70 million. That is less than the cost of an 850-ft. carrier for the Navy, but more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deepfreeze Defense | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

This offering might undermine the Communists' formal objection to the project; but their real fear was that the revised river course would sever their armies in Honan and Shantung Provinces. They warned UNRRA that if work continued they would "feel free to take whatever action they deem necessary"-which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: UNRPA's Sorrow | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

The idea was first put forward by former Secretary of State Byrnes more than a year ago. Stalin himself is understood to have approved it at one point, but Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov found objection to it and never allowed it serious consideration in any of the Big Four meetings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reports Claim Marshall Planning Forty Year Treaty for Germany; Jap War Crimes Appeal Dismissed | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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