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Word: reticular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Glienicke. Self-important ducks and chickens strut like commissars in Alt-Glienicke's cobbled streets. Berlin's only working windmill turns lazily in the breeze near by, and close to the boundary separating East and West stands a U.S. radar station, bending its reticular ear to the operations at East Berlin's busy Schönefeld Airport. Two rings of barbed wire guard the lonely radar post, and behind them a detachment of uniformed Signal Corps men live a life as secret and isolated as monks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Wonderful Tunnel | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

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