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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scowling over his glasses, Winston Churchill held his hands before him as if he were physically wheeling a big problem into the Council of Europe's Assembly at Strasbourg.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPEAN UNION: What the Girl Looks Like | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Pâté on the Terraces. .The-question of West Germany's admission had hung over the debates of the Consultative Assembly, had seeped into the delegates' conversations as they sat on Strasbourg's fine restaurant terraces, eating Strasbourg's fine pâté...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPEAN UNION: What the Girl Looks Like | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

It was, said Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, the second most important return of a dead hero in Jewish history; the most important, said Ben-Gurion, occurred 3,300 years ago when the Jews carried Joseph's casket back to Palestine from their Egyptian exile. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Second Most Important | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

In the ghostlike, empty village of Vronderon, near the Albanian border, one Lazanis Nestoridis, a private in the government army, pinned up a penciled notice on the front door of a two-story stone house. It read: "Friends, please do not remove the few remaining articles from this house. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Days of Victory | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

In Santiago last week, a student protest against a 14% hike in bus fares turned into ugly rioting over the cost of living. The rioters even tried to rush La Moneda, the presidential palace, but tear gas held them off until palace guards could slam shut the great wooden doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Fast Work | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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