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Word: sos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aside from the gags and the wall-shaking blobs of oratory, the most lasting impression created by Elliott's speech was that the men in the Kremlin are black-hearted so-and-sos, while by comparison, we are a bunch of choir boys...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: Elliott Tags Soviets in World Politics | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...such effect. That night bombs went off all over the city, and Guardia patrols raced through the streets. No one was hurt; no property damaged. In a downtown doorway, an oldtime U.S. marine, who had stayed on with his Nicaraguan wife after the U.S. occupation in the 'sos, picked his teeth and said knowingly: "The Guardia's setting them off to see if it can push the opposition into playing its hand." In a nearby bar, another ex-marine had it differently. "Naw," he countered, "it's the opposition; they're just tossing bombs to study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: The Shrewd Apothecary | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Plane to Bizet. Last week, Regina Resnik heard the familiar SOS again. At 2 o'clock in the morning, the telephone rang in her Manhattan hotel suite. Could she be in Montreal the next day to sing the title role in Bizet's Carmen? Soprano Winifred Hieidt had been taken ill in Chicago. Regina had sung the role in French only once, two years ago. She was still tired from a trip to Colorado, where she had sung Leonore in 13 performances of Beethoven's Fidelia. But by 2 p.m. she was on a plane for Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Distress Cases | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Other divisions of TIME Inc. also borrow him in times of crisis - such as last week's SOS from the Paris printer of one of our overseas editions for a plane-sped package of extender (ink dryer). He has even been useful in getting people to work. Recently, one of our researchers injured a kneecap and another, who had just recovered from a broken leg, offered to lend the invalid her idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...V.D.M.T.- "V.D.M.T.-" G.I.s in Europe, hearing these cryptic initials aired again & again over the American Forces Network, were intrigued. They were supposed to be. Captain Frank Danzig, peacetime CBS man, dreamed up the V.D.M.T. in response to an Army SOS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Campaign | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

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