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Word: paladins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only did Edward demand of his friend such constant and lavish hospitality that his financial ruin was inevitable, but he made him the butt of more & more brutal practical jokes. Through it all, through ridicule, poverty, and obsolescence, Christopher remained a faithful paladin, faithful unto death, which he incurred through obeying a royal summons when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Virtue & Its Fruits | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...gets off to a fortissimo start in San Francisco this week. The opening Lohengrin will star a new Swedish tenor named Set Svanholm and the Metropolitan Opera's Astrid Varnay. In the orchestra pit will be 47-year-old, parrot-nosed William Steinberg, a favorite conductor of the paladin of all conductors, Arturo Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscanini Favorite | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 2). Tito claimed that U.S. air forces had violated Yugoslav sovereignty 32 times in one week. The State Department replied with a stiff, 3,000-word note which added up to a simple: "Not so." Most Americans began to realize that Tito, long billed as the paladin of Yugoslav democracy, was no democrat, and that he bore watching. What they did not know about him would fill several police archives, and perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Proletarian Proconsul | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

From the lone wooded crag dominating the valley of Mercuès in Southwest France, plunderer, paladin and prelate had watched the pageant of Europe pass by over 20 centuries. Last week to Mercuès' lofty height, awkwardly and at last, came the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hilltop's Tale | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Says No? In two other Russian fights during UNO's last wearing week, Vishinsky traded tactical loss for strategic gain. The Security Council voted down his demand for an Indonesian investigation, which gave Russia her chance to pose before the world's dependent peoples as their UNO paladin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Spasm of Aggression | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

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