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Word: squawkbox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...sinking our squawkbox sounded: 'Jap snooper is closing.' One cruiser opened fire with two destroyers joining. ... At 9:50 p.m. the squawkbox said: 'A group of planes is closing. They are dropping float lights. Another group is off our starboard bow, now closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Paradise into Hell | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...midnight approached, our skipper decided that the men below might be wanting rest. He ordered the squawkbox silenced. A man telling me about that decision next day said: 'They left us with Jap torpedo planes closing in. We waited for word and waited. The uncertainty was killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Paradise into Hell | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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