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Word: screaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelfth day of the battle for Iwo Jima, only three men were left of his 32-man platoon. Then, from Iwo's craggy, ridge-locked plateau came the whee-ee-eet-whee-ee-eet of the moaning Minnies.* There was a moment of blackness, a scream, and then silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twelve Days of Battle | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Despite Boston sportscribes like Dave Egan, who continued to scream editorially about what he called "the dry rot and decay which have overthrown the Harvards. . . here in a corner of the country where college (athletes) are strict amateurs and play like strict amateurs," the Crimson athletic situation was looking up this past year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burdened But Unbowed, John Harvard Faced Peace Again | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Avenida Ejercito Nacional, stretching out through Mexico City's glittery west side suburbs, is tree-shaded and quiet. One afternoon last week its peace dissolved in sounds familiar to every North American -the scream of braked tires, the clatter and bang of a rear-end collision. A sleek new Oldsmobile, with a pretty girl at the wheel, had smashed into a new Buick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Let Yourself Go | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Harry can answer, a redheaded messenger dashes up, hands him a pink slip. Harry reads it close to his chest, yells: 'Sell July one. Sell July one.' The red-faced man and a dozen other traders rush him, wave their hands at him, shout in his face, scream in his ears, tug at his sleeves, dance up and down before his eyes. They want to buy an eighth of a cent lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Court of Ceres | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Penman's Progress. Some of the things Japanese unions do would make Tom Girdler scream for John L. Lewis. Japanese labor techniques grew out of the Japanese worker's effort to reconcile the paternalistic structure of Japan's industry with relatively alien class-struggle ideas. The labor-relations adventures of the Pilot Fountain Pen Co. is a microcosm of this effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Labor's Love Lost | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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