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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the trial recessed over the weekend, Judy's purse had become a symbol of the evil lurking in the kind of overzealous snooping, gossip and talebearing which seemed to be one price of national security. Presumably the noisy little defense attorney thought he was serving his client by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Inside the Purse | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

"The Fist of His Power." What little chance the Administration had of putting over its bill (reenactment of the Wagner Act with a little stiffening) was knocked galley west when John L. Lewis called his coal strike (see below). Propositions for labor bills were sticking out of virtually every other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hot Words | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

All week, under questions, Chambers sat in the witness chair while Stryker tried to destroy his credibility, tried to rattle him, taunted him. Through it all Chambers, ex-Communist and former espionage agent, sat with a kind of melancholy serenity, hands folded in his lap, occasionally stroking one cheek. Stryker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man & Wife | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Seven-in-One. Chambers was taken back & forth over the old story of espionage. He confirmed previous testimony as it was read back to him-how in 1939, two days after the Hitler-Stalin pact, he had gone to see Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man & Wife | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

This week John L. began talks with a group of operators traditionally more hospitable than the Southerners-U.S. Steel, biggest of the so-called captive operators. He wanted Big Steel to boost miners' pensions, and to give them shorter hours (perhaps a 30-hour week) without cutting pay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Menacing Instability | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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