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Word: swaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lyubyanka Prison, for, as an eminent Soviet journal wrote in a campaign against squeamishness: "A prison is a prison." On his rare public appearances with other Soviet big shots, Beria usually seeks out Georgy Malenkov, obese, agate-eyed secretary of the Communist Party. Beria and Malenkov chat vivaciously, swap notes. They seem to like each other. The other leaders do not seem to like either of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Hunter | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

TIME'S SUMMATION OF UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESIDENTIAL SWAP BOILS DOWN TO UNDERSTANDABLE STATEMENT A MASS OF FACTS AND GOSSIP THAT HAD CONFUSED NEW MEXICO PUBLIC. . . . HULLABALOO RAISED AGAINST TIME'S STORY BY UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS COINCIDENTALLY FOLLOWS BOARD OF REGENTS' STATEMENT THAT NEW PRESIDENT POPEJOY WOULD BE GIVEN FREE HAND IN SELECTING HIS FACULTY FOR NEXT YEAR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...costumed duel-to-the-death in which "the two antagonists lock wrists . . . their sweat-drenched faces only an inch apart . . . and swap talk: 'Norman dog! Anglo-Saxon lilies will grow over thy bones ere yon sun sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cut It Out | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...subsequent repercussions in the U.N. According to the current rules of the game, it will be perfectly all right for Arabs to slaughter Jewish settlers as long as they stay within reasonable bounds and do not constitute a threat to the peace. The concessionaires are quite willing to swap a human life for a tankful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palestine: Embroiled in Oil | 3/5/1948 | See Source »

...hour trip from Salta to Antofagasta. That would wait until next week, when, on the 27th anniversary of its first construction, the new Trans-Andean railway would be officially inaugurated. At the ceremony, no one would cheer louder than the desert miners of northern Chile, who want to swap their copper and nitrates for Argentina's grain, vegetables and beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ANDES: Last Spike | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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