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Word: preparedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bush feels that we must make democracy work to keep itself prepared for at least a generation, working at the same time to extend this democracy throughout the world. His definition of democracy is a broad one--it includes using our technical progress unselfishly to achieve economic as well as...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Science and Civilization | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

"I have got it right from his neighbors that he has the reputation of being a gunman and in this particular case he ... had a very beautiful weapon and was . . . prepared to do the work of a gunman. He was charged on two other occasions with doing the work of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Lucky Day. Possibly Chanis felt lucky: he had already prepared to celebrate his 58th birthday at the palace on Sunday. Possibly he counted on the fact that Remón, too, has been seriously ill with liver trouble in recent months. For a little while it seemed that his plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hail to the Chief | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Oblivious of this fact, Radcliffe girls got out their Angora mittens, motorists got out the chains and the anti-freeze, and Terence O'Reilly '19, night watchman of the Public Waterworks of Weston, prepared himself with a wee nip.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Slips In on Little Cat Feet | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile the University Maintenance Crews prepared 500 gallons of what was described as "corn" to keep the staff and the vice-President of the Corporation "up to snuff." Snuff, it was observed, can only be purchased of a certain Magyar Refugee '06, in Passamaquoddy, Maine.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Slips In on Little Cat Feet | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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