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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the rebels themselves were careful to leave the door ajar. Candidate Wright explained, with careful ambiguity: "This is not a bolt. This is not a fourth party. I say to you that we are the true Democrats of the Southland and these United States." To be doubly sure that there was a way of scrambling back, the rebels agreed to convene again next October to see how they were doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Tumult in Dixie | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...arms and stained the waters of Lough Swilly pink with men's blood. Yonder they came, eight men of England's navy and that same young duke that married the king's daughter, strolling bold as brass into free Eire. "We want a navy snack," says they, marching into the Green Bay at Buncrana. "We want a typical navy snack, with plenty of steak and chips and don't say nothin' to anyone about the dook." Then off they go to the local for a pint apiece, to wet their whistle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Border Raid | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...Faster Ahead." Not even ten catties of gold, say refugees from Changchun, can buy an air ticket from the dying northeastern capital. The emergency planes that bring in supplies for the Nationalist garrison take only highest priority people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 30,000,000 Uprooted Ones | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...obeyed the laws of physics and fallen down. In the sixth round, Champion Ike Williams (alias the Trenton Tiger) had him backed into a corner, a helpless hulk. Ike punched away until his arms grew weary, then lowered his gloves and looked at the referee as if to say: "Aren't you gonna stop it?' What was holding Beau up? None of the 12,952 spectators knew. Getting no help from the referee, Ike reluctantly went back to pounding his victim. When Referee Charley Daggert finally called a halt, the beaten Beau was still propped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Man Who Wouldn't Go Down | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...really came of age. With some misgivings he had gone to serve as visiting lecturer in philosophy and religion at the University of Iowa. When he returned he found that the congregation had stopped calling it "Fellowship Church" or "the church" and had begun to call it "our church." Says he: "Now comes the temptation to say, 'We have a very nice atmosphere here-let's freeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fellowship Church | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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