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Word: saltingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allegiance to the Leftist EAM, biggest of the Greek guerrilla factions. Before the war he did time in jail for forgery and worse. When the Germans came, he collected a gang of thugs, escaped to the hills, impartially harried Nazis and political opponents by slitting their ears and rubbing salt into the slits. A Greek who recently saw him describes Ares thus: "A swarthy face spanned by a handlebar mustache. ... He scorns rank, wears a uniform of which every piece is from a dead enemy. Around his fat waist he carries half a dozen knives. ... On his head he wears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Men of the Mountains | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...time Edith got to the huge palace of Xenia, her father, whom she had never known, was dead. The senior girls remembered him, used to discuss him loudly when Edith was in hearing distance, praising him to the skies to salt the wound of her ignorance of him. But when one of them said he must have been a cad to have left Edith's mother, Edith slapped her, nearly got expelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Revisited | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...actually the correct translation was "to guide the thoughts and control the actions of students abroad." As for the training a student had to receive before going abroad-that was simply to teach him "how to eat soup, not to put his knife in his mouth, or to put salt in his coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Embarrassment of a Confucian | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

There are 29 tunnels on the highly scenic, two-hour Denver & Salt Lake run from Denver to Winter Park. Last weekend many young high-school couples from Denver enjoyed the tunnels on their way to the ski slopes. They were not using their jalopies, but the only reason was that their own particular black market in gas coupons had been almost wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Denver School Days | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...what scoundrels those Army boys must be to have earned such punishment. Their's has been a bunk padder's fate, and we can offer little consolation. As you know, the mess hall was named for the former Admiral of the Supply Corps who "banished salt horse and cracker hash from the high seas." We will glady rename it for you boys in khaki if you can get the menu changed at Cowie Hall. In the meantime, we'll understand if, in your weakened condition, your vocal work is a little less fervent, your cadence not quite so thick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/21/1944 | See Source »

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