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Word: tanned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leave Me Alone." From the exclusive 28 Club next door to the consulate, a tan-uniformed employee rushed into the street, shouting: "There's a woman lying in the courtyard back there." Excited knots of spectators appeared out of nowhere. Newsmen and photographers pelted into the club building. Police guards on duty outside the consulate raced after them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The House on 61st Street | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Here, for a few remarkable hours, the hunger of Berlin and the fears of the world seem as remote as the banished darkness. The divided world unites in the extravagant exchange of buffet-and-cocktail banalities-perhaps the only true international language. Bright Scottish kilts swish past the dull tan of Soviet uniforms; a U.S. admiral's navy blue is lightly brushed by the pastel veils of an Indian sari. Vodka, French wines and odd Eastern European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: INTERMEZZO | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...steal) to regain his manhood. The emotional crisis is at length resolved by an oilman's wife whose hair curls to her shoulders, whose eyes are like something out of the sea, and who presents herself in Jack's guest room to show him her extensive tan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocking Rover Boy | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...tried on some faces. He tried eyebrow pencils, lipsticks and Pancake Make-up (neither Max Factor 23 nor Max Factor 29 was quite right, but Max Factor 28, a nice healthy brown, looked wonderful on the handsome governor). Thinking it all over, he settled for a fast barbershop tan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Quiet, Please | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...rockin' chair's got me Cane by my side Fetch me that gin, son 'Fore I tan yo hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blues Classic | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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