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Word: pea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ruppert's Rookie. In the early '30s, nonetheless, it didn't take long for Joe, the pea-green rookie, to outshine Vince and the other Seals. In his first full season (1933) he smashed the Pacific Coast League record by hitting safely in 61 consecutive games. He struck up a friendship with the team's first baseman, a fancy dresser and wisecracker, aped his dress and manners. From the Seals' trainer, an oldtime featherweight boxer, he soaked up fancy words. For a while, his stock reply to anyone asking him where he had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Guy | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...over a month, the fate of Berlin had been wearily discussed in Moscow. Then, one night last week, the Western powers' special envoys relaxed: they went to see Vivien Leigh in Anna Karenina. They had achieved "agreement in principle" (TIME, Sept. 6) with Russia. Now, like a pea in a shell game, the problem was passed back to Berlin, where the four military governors of Germany were instructed to work out an agreement in practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Moscow to Berlin | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Extreme Cruelty. In Lawrence, Mass., Mrs. Jeanie R. Gordon sued for divorce, said that her husband threw her parrot out the window when the bird snitched on him for coming home late. In Portland, Me., Raymond Bracey, seeking a divorce, complained that his wife not only served him pea soup for breakfast and dinner but put pea-soup sandwiches in his lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Last week, in his efforts to stave off this eventuality, Petrillo had tangled himself up in the works of the canned-music business with the bellicose ingenuity of an octopus in a pea thresher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Pied Piper of Chi | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Pea-Green Bus. An observation team from the U.N.'s Balkan Commission flew into loannina last week and, accompanied by reporters, started for the fighting zone in a pea-green bus. They were a strangely assorted crew. India's press representative was a small neat man in a midnight blue Homburg and black canvas overshoes. Mexican Captain Soto Mc-Nerney was resplendent in a green hunting costume, with fur collar, from Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch. The London Times man, clad in street clothes and carrying a neatly rolled umbrella, looked as though he had just stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Siege | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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