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Word: spined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.M.C., can go back to civilian life any time he wants. He has 232 points, three campaign ribbons with 17 Pacific battle stars and a chestful of decorations, including the Navy Cross. He also carries 39 pieces of shrapnel, a Jap bullet in his shoulder and another in his spine. But this week, as the Marine Corps celebrated its 170th birthday, indestructible, 27-year-old Sergeant Smith was glad to tell reporters that he was not going to be a civilian. He is a professional marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES: Professional | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...happy, peaceful moment, the victors were content to survey the inscrutable vanquished and to be glad the Japs had had sense enough to quit. One G.I. looked from a plane at the tumbled hills and mountains of Honshu's spine and said: "Am I glad I don't have to fight over this country-just like Okinawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SURRENDER: The Last Beachhead | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...again in the music of Porgy and Bess; and The Man I Love given an added pinch of pepper by Hazel Scott's post-graduate left hand are only a few of the courses served up in this lavish Gershwin feast. For dessert and liqueur there is a spine-tingling performance of the Rhapsody in Blue, arranged, conducted and played by three members of the original priesthood-Ferde Grofé, Paul Whiteman and Levant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 2, 1945 | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...little life into what could have been a plotless horror a la Abbott and Costello, the producers have added murder and mystery to provide a spine for an otherwise invertebrate cinema. When flea trainer Allen is left an inheritance of five chairs, which he sells, and then finds that one of them has a fortune tucked away inside, there begins a routine chase involving the usual fusillade of shots and usual ending . . . Fred with a fistful of greenbacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 6/14/1945 | See Source »

...Americans in China were the men of Major General Claire Chennault's redoubtable Fourteenth Air Force; their coordination was a key factor. Then U.S. ground troops, under Major General Robert ("Uncle Bob") McClure, a Guadalcanal veteran, were organized in a network of liaison units running like a stiffening spine through selected Chinese divisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The New Army | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

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