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Word: stillness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admitted . . . When I last saw them they were smiling and I was smiling. That's the way I wanted it to be. No weeping stuff." Squint had one more request: he wanted his eyes given to New York's Eye-Bank (doctors said the corneas could still be used despite the damage caused by the caustic 41 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Another Cup of Coffee | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...friend," she once broadcast, "I've got some swell new recordings for you, just in from the States. You'd better enjoy them while you can, because tomorrow at 0600 you're hitting Saipan . . . and we're ready for you. So, while you're still alive, let's listen to . . ." Iva, the Government contends, also called U.S. troops "suckers," and "boneheads of the Pacific," told them that their wives and sweethearts back home were being unfaithful to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: Your Old Friend | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Cripps wanted to jar the British people into working harder; at the same time he wanted to restore confidence in the pound sterling-Cripps still said flatly that he would not devalue the pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Dollars & Dockers | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...takeover, U.S. Consul General John M. Cabot decided to run the blockade. Hands in pockets (to avoid any possible charges of having used violence), Cabot advanced to the door; the workers refused to let him pass. "There is nothing we can do," said Mr. Cabot and turned back, hands still in his pockets. His staff broke out K rations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: No Hands | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...China was still keeping its hands in its pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: No Hands | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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