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Word: talked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After allowing his military advisers to talk out loud about convoying refugees home from Europe with U. S. naval vessels, the President decided that U. S. merchant ships should boldly sail the seas protected only by the careful advertisement of the nationality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No Drifting | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...woman thoughtlessly or falsely talk of America sending its armies to European fields." (He did not say such armies might not eventually go to such fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Preface to War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Over a period of four months I have been looking on. . . . I proposed a solution on the basis of direct negotiations. For two long days I have been waiting. . . . My love of peace and my endless patience should not be mistaken for weakness. . . . I am now determined to talk the same language to Poland that Poland has been talking to us. I have given in to the Western Powers for quite some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Painters War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Pope's ministrations, like those of all strivers for peace, had failed. But in one State they were a factor in the final decision. The Vatican newspaper printed last week an unprecedented report. Cardinal Maglione had a long, formal talk with an official not accredited to the Church- the private chaplain of Vittorio Emmanuele III, King and Emperor of Italy. Italy stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VATICAN: Sheep Kill Sheep | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Sirela, however, is not all peace talk. The dictionary has a column of symbols each for murder (FAREBORE - "The police are holding the victim's fiance for the murder") ; kidnapping (FAMIMIDO - "The child was lured from its home while at play"); vital statistics (FASIDOFA - "The birth of triplets was announced"). The language has other unusual features. The symbol for Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, for example, is LADOSORE. But if Herr Hitler should suddenly be displaced by, say, Nazi-jailed Communist Ernst Thalmann, Sirela would serenely call the new Reichsfuhrer LADOSORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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