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Word: overnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Rodion Malinovsky's Army splashed into Kherson and on toward Nikolayev after a spectacular overnight thrust. In the flooded plain, the cavalry bore the brunt of battle. Shrewdly, Malinovsky sent a myriad of raiding units-a tank or two, tommy gunners, horsemen-into the steppe to sow panic. They did their job well: Moscow said nowhere was chaos greater than in this sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Catastrophe | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...singing, and Davis was in demand. Since then his records have sold more than a million copies, and Davis has acquired 450 acres of farmland. He calls the farming his insurance. "When a man's in the business I'm in," he says, "things may blow up overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Triumphant Minstrel | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Overnight the temperature bounced up 40°, flowers bloomed in Kiev and Moscow, everyone came down with a cold. Thaw time had come: the great Red winter campaign was near its calendar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Cast-up at Thaw Time | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...threat developed overnight, and grew hourly. Behind it loomed the skilled hand of dynamic, canny Konstantin Rokossovsky-the man who destroyed the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.* Inactive for two months, "Rok" last week hurled into battle a force estimated by Berlin at 100,000, captured Rogachev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Rok Fights Again | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...plastic eyes look more natural than glass eyes because they reflect less light; 4) plastic eyes do not explode (glass eyes sometimes do, from changes in temperature); 5) plastic eyes keep their color and stay shiny longer than glass eyes (unlike glass eyes which are usually put in water overnight, they are often worn constantly, get little handling). Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Making Eyes | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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