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Word: spined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PRESSURE TERRIFIC. KEPT SPINNING ALL THE TIME. TO BE ABLE TO CUT LOOSE AS SUGGESTED NEEDED SEVERAL MORE ARMS. ON THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE NEITHER BAD NOR TERRIFYING, CONSCIOUS ALL THE TIME. LIEUT. LOWREY'S RESCUE THE AMAZING THING AND TO HIM BOUQUETS. PRACTICALLY RECOVERED FROM BROKEN SPINE. TRY IT AGAIN IN TWO MONTHS REGARDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...chair of his sumptuous suite. "Why can't they leave the outing clubs at Dartmouth, where that sort of thing belongs?" His complexion was losing its summer tan, taking on the familiar city sallowness, and his eyes were red with Cambridge soot. This Cambridge Scrooge rested upon his recumbent spine, and his head nodded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/9/1941 | See Source »

...Modern Art's display looked about as homelike as the waiting room of an up-to-date airport. Tea wagons that looked like bathroom fixtures shared honors with kidney-shaped coffee tables and tubular steel reclining mechanisms. Most of the weird-looking gadgetry was much easier on the spine than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sit-Down Show | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Henry's show could be put over and kept running it would be a considerable satisfaction to the Allies. It would screen part of the Near East from the Nazis, give some spine to wobbling Turkey and boost the stock of the De Gaullist Free French who furnished the incidental music when they entered Syria with their band playing La Marseillaise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: Mixed Show | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Driven from Crete by these losses was a fugitive from injustice, George II of Greece. The King was separated from his troops by parachutists in the first hours of fighting, but he eluded them, rode on muleback for two days across Crete's sharp spine, embarked for Alexandria in a British destroyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MEDITERRANEAN THEATER: Crete Against the Skies | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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