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Word: primed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present crisis was caused by the obstinate though patriotic refusal of recent Prime Minister Nahas Pasha to ape his King in the sorry but inevitable role of British puppet (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Lion's Might | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...decline a challenge to duel and yet retain one's honor unimpaired is a problem which periodically presents itself to the Prime Minister of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No, No, M. Bergery | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...Bergery," said the Prime Minister softly, with a slow, maddening smile, "I recognize the M. Bergery whom I knew on the Reparations Commission-always ready to distort the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No, No, M. Bergery | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...instant the brow of the Prime Minister was stern, beetled, then he seemed to remember a very good jest, beamed, chuckled, "No, no, M. Bergery. You asked me to be your second-your best man-at your first marriage. I refused you then. I still refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No, No, M. Bergery | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Amid mirthful uproar MM. Les Deputes recalled that the first wife of M. Bergery, an actress, soon divorced him. Later deflated Challenger Bergery excused himself thus: "I spoke in the heat of debate. Of course I had no intention of sending seconds to the Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No, No, M. Bergery | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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