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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he emplaned for the U.S. in the silver-painted transport known as "Uncle Joe's Chariot." Few men had been stouter friends of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Crisis | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Show-Me State. In key Missouri, the Democrats scored an upset. The victor: tall, silver-haired Phil M. Donnelly, veteran state legislator. The loser: his fellow townsman (Lebanon) Jean Paul Bradshaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: Governors | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...courage and resourcefulness. Captain Hall got the Distinguished Service Cross. Of the 62 men in the 165th, two others have won the Silver Star, six have won the Bronze Star, and one sergeant has been promoted on the battlefield to second lieutenant. But most of the recognition they receive is an anonymous Credit line: U.S. Army Signal Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: War through a Lens | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...course a young man like that landing in the midst of Boston society played havoc with the fair sex. They fell before him like ninepins." Handsome Cotty entered Lee, Higginson & Co., brokers, as a runner and clerk. Life among the trust funds soon bored him. He visited the famed, silver-tongued rector of Boston's fashionable Trinity Episcopal Church, Phillips Brooks. Their conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Victorian Headmaster | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

Holder of the Purple Heart and Silver Star for service in World War I, Compton had joined the Seabees in September 1942, became a chief electrician's mate. In Bermuda, on his first assignment, he came under command of an ensign with whom he did not get along. Complained Compton: "He was an overbearing kid of about 26 or 27, and you know it's pretty hard on older men who have been in their trade 15 or 20 years to have a youngster telling them what's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: First Case | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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