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Word: retainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the social convention of the Victorian Era, Nora decides to leave her husband. But the emotional impact which the climax originally possessed has been entirely lost, as the script drags unwholesomely at that point. Too much time is lost in meaningless dialogue between Nora and her husband to retain any of the effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 4/24/1945 | See Source »

...This," said Minister Lacoste, "is real industrial democracy." He also observed: the new system "will be much like Russian institutions, except that we will retain the foundation of private enterprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Adieu, Private Enterprise? | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...more thing. Some of our English and American leaders are worried that Germany will not be able to pay reparations unless she is allowed to retain her factories. I say to hell with reparations! I don't want anything they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...Love of my country Brought me here; And the faith of my fathers Which I want to retain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Even Penguins Know It | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

Bayonets in Belgium. Following a fortnight of riots in Brussels, the Belgian Chamber of Deputies met behind a wall of British tanks and bayonets, voted, 116 to 12, to retain Premier Hubert Pierlot. In Brussels, there were many strikes. But most of Belgium was quiet. The Communists continued to shout: "The Pierlot Cabinet is condemned by the mass of people." Through the newly opened port of Antwerp, people expected Allied food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five Crises | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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