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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman could look out over the formal rose gardens, edged with boxwood. And as he walked back to Blair House at day's end, he could also see, glowing pink and salmon under the ancient elms, the round beds of impatiens, which people also know as the patience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Breath of Summer | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Last week the House also: ¶ Whooped through a $72-a-month pension for all veterans 65 and over with incomes of less than $1,200 if single, $2,500 if married.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Then he turned to "this man who calls himself Chambers, alias Adams, alias Crosley, alias Cantwell, and was a member of this nefarious, filthy conspiracy for twelve long years." Midway in his diatribe he veered to throw in a shocker. Discussing the secret documents which the State would present, Lloyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: A Well-Lighted Arena | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

The crackers sat in the sun, their backs to the decaying summer house and watched the strangers. Irwinton seemed full of strangers, their cars raising clouds of red Georgia dust. Said one resentfully: "We had a white man lay over in a swamp near Big Sandy Creek till the buzzards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Death of Picky Pie | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

It all started Sunday night, when Sheriff George C. Hatcher was waked by a Negro. He was bleeding across the chest. "Picky Pie Hill done did me over at the New Harlem Club in Mclntyre," he said. The sheriff jumped into his car and headed for the tin-roofed Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Death of Picky Pie | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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