Word: talisman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where Is Man?" [TIME, April 11] is so wise-so eminently wise (to paraphrase Quiller-Couch on Newman's Idea of a University) -as to deserve being bound by every college student "for a frontlet on his brow and as a talisman on his writing wrist...
...talisman, it worked very well. Despite the diversity of our route through the 15 countries we visited, we were off schedule only once. The children turned out to be good travelers, resilient and resourceful, standing patiently through 26 customs examinations in 68 days on our way through southeast Asia and India, across a corner of Africa and into Europe, to Scandinavia, London and, via the Queen Elizabeth, New York...
...Talisman. Five days before Sir Archibald Sinclair, Britain's dapper Secretary of State for Air, told the House of Commons that Allied air power was now nearly at peak strength, and declared that air supremacy, "the talisman that can paralyze German war industry and war transport and clear the road to Berlin," is clearly within reach...
...talisman in time of Russia's distress, Leningrad stood firm...
Plump, amiable Editor Hall rises late, always walks by a florist's shop on his way to work, buys a Talisman rose for his buttonhole. Magnificently mustachioed, he drives city editors to despair. They say anybody can walk into Grover Hall's office and persuade him not to run an unpleasant story about a suicide or an automobile smashup. Sometimes he carries a hot news tip around for days without thinking to tell the city desk about...