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Word: shrouds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dusk began to shroud the castle and the city below. In St. Wenceslaus Square, Prague's Communist Mayor Vaclav Vacek was addressing the crowd. Suddenly he spotted Gottwald's familiar Russian Zis limousine speeding into the square between its motorized police escort. "And there they come now on their shiny red motorcycles with the blue headlights!" he shouted. "They are guarding Comrade Gottwald who is bringing us new and joyful tidings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Police Day | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Hail & Prayers. The funnel moved on, gathering about it an awesome shroud of torrential rain and hail. In Higgins, 15 miles away, only three brick buildings survived undamaged. Flames licked the wreckage. Of the town's 1,250 inhabitants, 45 were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Like a Fast Freight | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Since Newton, a graduate of the Law School, assumed chare of the case last Wednesday, a shroud of silence has contrasted with the earlier flurry of reports that attended Parkhurst's arrest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Counsel Shrouds Parkhurst's Move In Hearing Today | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Where does this leave the average voter? Must he give up the political ghost? Or is there anything he can do to compensate for the defection of his leaders; The fog with which the politicians have hoped to shroud the basic issues is a sorry presumption on the vitality of democracy in the United States. While Secretary Byrnes demands more political democracy in Europe and denounces the elections of Bulgaria and Poland, the state of affairs in his own country plays upon the weaknesses of popular liberalism. Whether Henry Wallace is right or wrong, his recent dispute with Byrnes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: November, 1946 | 10/5/1946 | See Source »

Behind these armored needles lacing up the German shroud, the Allies tidied and mopped up. Regensburg, the Ratisbon where Napoleon won a battle and a wound in the heel; Augsburg, 95 miles from the Brenner Pass; Bremen in the north, Germany's second largest seaport, all fell within the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY: Death Rattle | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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