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Word: pea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter confusion of the German breakthrough the Army clamped down a censorship thicker than the pea-soup fog that shrouded the great German counterattack. Communiqués were as much as 48 hours behind the event. When they came they were meager and vague. Correspondents blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Old Army Game | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...pea-green freshman, hitherto the lowest form of campus life, is wearing a hero's helmet this fall. Without him there would be little or no college football -except at West Point and Annapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Teens and TNT | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...this report (he, too, had been given a friendly Roosevelt back pat) that he called back all advance copies of his address nominating Franklin Roosevelt for Term IV, and threatened not to make the speech at all. Cried "Dear Alben": "I certainly don't know which shell the pea is under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: How the Bosses Did It | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...girl had met with foul play, they reasoned, she might never have left the building. They drained two 9,000-gallon water tanks on the roof, another 5,000-gallon tank in a 13th-floor engine room. They shoveled and sifted their way through 150 tons of pea coal in basement bins. They searched the building's 550 rooms, foot by foot. They found no trace of her: Where had Valsa been going, in the snow, before dawn? She had only an amateur interest in Indian political affairs. If she was dead, where was her body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Invisible Girl | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...Pea-soup fog might be catastrophic to invasion barges, compelled to navigate blindly. It would also rob the invaders of a chance to exploit initial advantage, help the enemy to shift his troops without air hindrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: 120 Days | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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