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Word: overnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tireless efforts until one August week when five U.S. Army flyers lay dead in a tiny village in the Julian Alps, victims of Marshal Tito's outdated confidence that the U.S. would look the other way. Communist Tito had been a great war hero to the U.S.; overnight he became the focus of U.S. wrath. Byrnes, sitting in a buzzing Conference session at Paris, spent two hours writing Tito a note that told him where he stood with a nation that had learned at last that the price of peace could be too high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Year of the Bullbat | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Curfew at 10. Like their European counterparts, the U.S. hostels hug secondary roads and avoid large cities, vary from deluxe cabins to converted barns. Hikers and bikers travel light, hop from one overnight spot to the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Youth in Vermont | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Darryl Zanuck was in hospital overnight-hand injured by a flying polo ball. Tommy Manville asked the police of Westchester County, N.Y. to please find his eighth wife. He said she was last seen on the Boston Post Road with two suitcases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...abundance." In beaten Germany he found an abundance of subjects, drew thousands of dagger-sharp drawings of pig-faced whores, vulpine businessmen, phthisical Army officers with eroding marble jaws, laborers coughing blood, and clerks sobbing on their knees. His graphic "No" to postwar Germany made Grosz a lion overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Big No, Little Yes | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Last week's stubborn set-to between a Harvard Freshman and a gasoline-powered passenger vehicle spotlighted the need for effective traffic control measures in the University area. The Cambridge gendarmerie, all too eager to enforce such rules as the "No overnight parking on the streets" ukase, seem to regard driver-pedestrian relations as the personal sphere of the parties concerned, with which it would be unsporting to interfere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dame Fortune's Darlings | 12/14/1946 | See Source »

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