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Word: ployment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican committee members, wistfully talking of high-tariff prosperity and solidly opposed to further reductions, Henry Wallace looked like a symbol of their discontent. They quizzed him about everything from killing pigs to full em ployment. To Minnesota's finance-minded Harold Knutson he looked like the fattest target he had seen in months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of an Issue | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...hearty and jolly in rest and brutally energetic in action. They lead in person. With their divisions they clamber up mountainsides which would put most corpulent U.S. colonels hors de combat. In nearly four years of fighting, the young officers have mastered the arts of the field-silent de ployment, timely retreat, sudden concentration, plausible ambuscade, dependable supply of vegetable camouflage. Lacking artillery, they still know when and how they ought to use artillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: The Army Nobody Knows | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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