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Word: rangely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helpless. British tanks had nuzzled up to the French positions. While the city rang with welcome to the British, and Paget's red, handsome face beamed, Roget angrily ordered his men back to barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Two Rusty Pistols | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Robert & Gaby. Fauré's prize student came from the most musical household in all Paris. Rue Rochechouart rang day & night with the exuberant music played by four uncles, a dozen aunts, a score of first cousins. Father, an actor, composed operettas; grandfather, an amateur fiddler, zealously watched the musical growth of each member of the clan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Casadesus' Tribute | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Money was as scarce as music was abundant, and Robert went to work as a percussionist in the Opéra-Comique; he rang the bells for Lakmé. Tympani took him through his Conservatory days, and then he went into the army. During his military career he solemnly rataplanned the drums at Versailles as Woodrow Wilson marched by with Clemenceau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Casadesus' Tribute | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...Francisco correspondent's telephone rang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Lesson for the Lebanese | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...full of the burnt smell of shooting and the men's ears rang with gunfire on the day a small reconnaissance group raided a town in Sicily. As they moved cautiously along, Bernstein glanced across the street at a young private named Taylor. "Isn't this like the movies?" Taylor said with a grin. "Isn't this just like the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The No-Glamor Boys | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

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