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Word: sos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incessant grilling, denied all contact with any U.S. official. The Russians held them 14 days, then turned them over to the Hungarians. The questions concentrated on the equipment in their plane, especially the six parachutes for a crew of four and a portable "Gibson Girl" radio for sending SOS signals if forced down on water. The Reds seemed unable to believe that the "Gibson Girl" is standard emergency equipment in U.S. transport aircraft, and that extra chutes are frequently carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Welcome to Freedom! | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...commanded Kaneohe Bay Air Station on Oahu. He was eating Sunday-morning breakfast in his quarters when he heard planes approaching. Snapped Martin from the window when he saw them violating the flight pattern: "When I get hold of those so-and-sos, they're going to lose some numbers." His sharp-eyed, twelve-year-old son, who had seen their markings, broke the bad news: "They're not going to lose any numbers, Pop. They're Japs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: First to Seventh | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...advance against the foe!" ¶ Col. Frederic W. Wise (who claimed that during World War I he had originated the phrase: "Retreat, hell-we just got here!") once heard his men had coined a nickname for him. He lined them up and shouted: "I hear you so-and-sos have taken to calling me 'Dopey.' All right; only don't forget that I'm also Wise'." ¶ The late Major General Smedley D. Butler, made a captain at 19 for bravery during the Boxer Rebellion, once walked alone into a rebel camp during a Nicaraguan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Esprit de Corps | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Jimmy Farrell, H.A.A. equipment chief, answered an SOS from Benny Friedman, who, opening football practice at Brandeis University, suddenly found himself short of uniforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Sock 'em" Is Latest Football Cry | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Jimmy Farrell, H.A.A. equipment chief, answered an SOS from Benny Friedman, who, opening football practice at Brandeis University, suddenly found himself short of uniforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Sock 'em" is Latest Football Cry | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

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