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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The 28-year-old ex-G.I. said little. But he brooded over the "derogatory remarks," of the neighbors. One morning last week he slipped a loaded clip into his Luger pistol, filled his pockets with ammunition, and went out to the sunlit street.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Quiet One | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

"The idea," explained Joseph van der Straeten, mine host at La Paix tavern in Belgium's seaside city of Knocke, "was to float slowly over the beach so that everyone could see me, then drop a trail rope to a waiting launch which would tow me back to shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Flight by Moonlight | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Back in La Paix tavern, happy couples danced away the night to U.S. song hits while Mrs. van der Straeten served cocktails and gazed anxiously northward. Far out over the North Sea her husband sat patiently on the edge of his basket, his feet dangling over the waves that lapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Flight by Moonlight | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

The parliament's upper house, the Bundesrat, met first. In a simple 28-minute session the deputies, who are chosen by the state legislatures, elected as chamber president Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia. When the lower house, the Bundestag, with 402 deputies elected by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Trying Over | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

It is a Neapolitan custom that, on the first Monday after burial, relatives and close friends of the deceased return to the grave and deck it with flowers. On that day, Cicatiellos bearing red flowers and Coronas bearing white flowers appeared at the cemetery. This time, antagonism boiled over and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 16-22-81-38 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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