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Word: sailorful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young sailor home from two years of active service sat listening in the gallery. All day long, like steam from a kettle, coils of debate had risen endlessly from the floor of the House of Representatives. The House was now preparing to vote on the same anti-poll tax bill that had been filibustered to death by a group of Southern Senators at the close of the 77th Congress (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Young Man Asks | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...commander of marines] went to the table, looked at a piece of paper a sailor had left there, read it, tore it up and asked in a grim voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Sevastopol | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...boldness of Nelson, without that hero's flamboyancy. His voice is so loud that he has no need for bull horns in battle. His eyes have a mariner's sadness, but he has plenty of wit. His pleasure is the sailor's hobby, gardening, and his hero is a fiery Scot, James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, one of the most colorful fighters, and a vigorous poetaster, of the 17th Century. His principal indulgence is the sending of very British dispatches, and in those dispatches lies the flavor of both A.B.C. and World War II in the Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: This Waterway | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

They pass into the Common and then sit down to wait. After not very long, they are walking up a grassy hill hanging onto a sailor's arm. The surprise and distress which this one revelation brought to me cannot easily be conveyed. To say the least, I was struck with abhorrence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

...Miami, at a street auction, the scarf of a sailor rescued after an Atlantic torpedoing brought $2,000. At a Chicago auction, a bag of dog food brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Attack! | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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