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Word: screaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patton turned to the medical officer and asked, "What's this man talking about? What's wrong with him-if anything?" Patton began to shout at the man. His high voice rose to a scream, in such language as: "You dirty no-good - - - -! You cowardly -! You're a disgrace to the Army and you're going right back to the front to fight, although that's too good for you. . . ." Patton reached for his white-handled single-action Colt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: War's Underside | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...Midwestern farm woman who has never seen one before, and she frequently accepts it with tears in her eyes. Breneman will offer a grandmother a cigar if he thinks he can get away with it. He constantly asks his audience if he is too intimate. They invariably scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Breakfast, of Sorts | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...gratified this week to hear you speak of "whiffing . . . projectiles" (TIME, Oct. 18, p. 94). Few people realize that shells whiffle over with a sound similar to that of Jabberwocks in the tulgey woods. Sniffles to those who make their shells scream instead of whiffle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1943 | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling it hard and sling it often and pick up His money. Then He could dress His self proper and get a car for His self, and look the part, so as no bride, posh or not, would scream if he tried to chat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cockney Dubliner | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...that often smacked of the medicine show has skidded into the circus ring. In New York, the backlog of cars, stored by owners who now ride subways, is still great. There, cars are bought on sight, over the phone, by mail. In big splashy ads, out-of-town dealers scream of amazing prices. One dealer even tooted his horn in Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Used-Car Boom | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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