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Word: taling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mostly the newsmen let him tell his story as he saw fit. Under the pepper tree, and in interviews with his military captors, he composed a fantastic tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Fat's in the Fire | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...wore a full-bottomed black wig backwards, peering through its curls like a sheepdog). Then, on the evening of Jan. 29, Bet appeared at her mother's door, half-naked, numb with cold, her face swollen and bloated, her hair matted. The neighbors listened aghast to her pitiful tale. "I have been almost starved to death," she quavered. "I have had nothing but bread and water since New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mystery of the Vanishing Virgin | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...Bell for Adano. Eloquent tale of an A.M.G. officer who makes democracy work in a Sicilian town (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Jack Falsey also has a humorous tale which any of his roommates will be glad to tell at any time. Jack will either have to stop writing billet-doux early in the morning while he's still sleepy or else set up a handy file for his pseudonyms. After setting the fashion pace by coming out at the second elbow within a week, Tex Lifshutz has modestly decided to accept L. Fuller's offer of a temporary loan of one complete black shirt...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/11/1945 | See Source »

Hare & Hounds. Unlike Crusoe, Tweed was a fugitive as well as a castaway, and his story is a harrowing tale of hare & hounds. Never for a moment did the Japs relax their hunt for him and the five other U.S. servicemen who chose to hide on the 225 sq. mi. island rather than surrender with the rest on Dec. 10, 1941. Time after time Tweed abandoned a hideaway only minutes before a Jap hunting party arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Jap-held Guam | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

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