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Word: ser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yank About Town. Dick Bruno (ser geant reporter for Stars and Stripes) came up with Winchelln-from an unidentified North African city. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Sidewalks of North Africa | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Under the heading "Dithyrambic With Key" El Pampero had printed a harmless lampoon of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. But the first letter of each line, joined in descending order, spelled out the less harmless acrostic: Hay que ser inglés para ser hijo de puta (One must be English to be a son of a whore). Within 72 hours Osés was indicted for obscenity and the trial date set. That night, on the fashionable Calle Florida, youthful mem bers of the newly formed, patriotic Action Argentina patrolled the sidewalks, seized and burned copies of El Pampero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Putsch on the Pampas | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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