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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern Governors milled all week in the lobbies of Washington's Mayflower and Statler Hotels. One Governor emerged from the smog of cigar smoke and politicking long enough to sum up: "We go into meetings to cuss him-but we just can't figure out any other answer than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Ageless New Deal | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...Bridgeboro, N.J., Joe was a mild young man who did not smoke, drink or swear. Last week, in describing how a dozen Japs thwarted his efforts to rescue them, Bargebuster Burk, without falling back on strong language, used strong words: "They were squealing and putting up a terrific fuss. There was nothing to do but eradicate them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: Double Champ | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

From these films TIME'S Scandinavian Edition is printed (in English, of course) with all the news from our regular U.S. editions-and copies are quickly placed on sale at 2,000 newsstands from Malmö (where you can smell the smoke of burning Berlin when the wind is from the south) to Boden, 50 miles from the Arctic Circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 24, 1944 | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...latest (Dec. 21) complete set of reconnaissance photographs, the buildings on about 1,360 of these 8,000 acres had been destroyed by 9,000 tons of bombs in six major raids. Since then the R.A.F. has dropped another 5,000 tons. Exact results will be known only when smoke, weather, other factors enable reconnaissance pilots to update their photographic evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Not Dead Yet | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...They queued up on us, a whole mess of them, and I saw our right-wing man go down in smoke, and when I looked out the other waist window our left-wing man was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Papa Takes Them Home | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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