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Word: swaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes," Gustavo recalls. "They were like tiger's eyes." Brother Miguel followed Obregón, who liked to stay up talking until 4 in the morning. "He'd never drink himself, but he'd feed us coffee and cognac, talk about fighting ahead or swap the latest filthy stories." Because the campesino's hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press train, Agustín sprinted to Vera Cruz to cover the U.S. invasion. Both sides held their fire while he focused under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Royal Family | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...Crimson grid fans who can pry themselves away from their radios this afternoon, there will be plenty of seats available at Soldiers Field when the Jayvees swap broadsides with the Fargo Building Navy Base eleven. Hostilities will commence at 2:30 o'clock at the enclosed Freshman practice field. There will be no admission charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvees Tackle Navy Squad in First Game | 10/11/1947 | See Source »

Even the Texas Boy Scouts in Paris knew that it was no good for them to have horned toads unless the other boys had enough penknives to swap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Trouble with Horned Toads | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Afterthought. In Plymouth, Mass., someone inserted a classified ad in the Guide to Cape Cod offering to swap a twin baby carriage for twin beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...That thing" was Helgoland-the tiny, mile-long island, 28 miles north of Germany. In 1890, when Britain traded it to the Germans for Zanzibar and a chunk of continental Africa, it was considered a fine swap. "Like getting a whole suit of clothes for a single trouser button," crowed famed African Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. By 1914 the Kaiser had spent $80 million turning Helgoland into an "unsinkable battleship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Button | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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