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Word: soiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, there is a limit to all things. For . . . the "Tobacco Road Gang" I would suggest ... a parachute and an airplane trip?and let them float gently down onto the soil of Japan. Oregon, Ill. RAYMOND BUKER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1945 | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...encirclement of Germany is complete. The decisive battles are now being fought on German soil. There can no longer be any doubt that the fate of Germany is sealed. It may be a matter of weeks. ... It is perhaps not going too far to express the hope that before the close of the San Francisco Conference, organized resistance in Germany will have been crushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: Report from f he P. M. | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...suffering, gnawing discomfort (equally immense) and imperturbable defiance of near defeat. For most of those 2,000 days Britons had stared into the hollow eyes of disaster and death; it had not occurred to them to wince. Now the unseasonably warm winds brought not only the scents of thawing soil and growing things, but the sense of long deferred victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The 2,000th Day | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...beginning, he became one of the Red Army's top tank strategists. He scored notable victories over the Germans at Kursk, Voronezh, Tarnopol, Vitebsk. He was Kiev's liberator. His troops (he commanded more than 500,000) were the first to set foot on German soil-in East Prussia. There, in the current offensive, his and Marshal Rokossovsky's men had taken all but 700 of that province's 14,300 square miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: A Hero Falls in Action | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

Dirt Cheap. In San Francisco, Harry Vensano, Public Works director, demanded that the city hold up a $12,375 Payment for soil delivered to a city park. His objection: the enterprising contractor had dug the dirt out of city streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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