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Word: tearful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boys are taught how to creep and crawl, break arms, kill with bayonets and knives, gouge eyes, knee the enemy in the groin. They are warned at the start to expect bloody noses and black eyes - especially when teams tear into each other with no holds barred. They take their lessons in dirty fighting seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mayhem in Medford | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...effective, Goldberg fans spent the most time with such famed Goldbergiana as the Boob McNutt series, Lala Palooza, and Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, who demonstrates his Simple Bookmark, operated by the lifting of reading glasses, which releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Goldberg at Mr. Morgan's | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...within ten miles of Annapolis' State House. To take the place of the Army cadets, denied transportation from West Point, half the Annapolis student body was delegated to cheer for the Army. With fingers crossed, they fulfilled their assignment for a while. But when the midshipmen began to tear the Army apart, they showed their true colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Final Rout | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Leaving the same trail of dead Nazis and sabot age which has been the subject of pictures since. Hitler invaded Austria, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, and company tear and blast their way across Germany to the Dutch frontier with blood, sweat, and doubletalk. They are captured innumerable times by the Gestapo, but since, as everybody knows, the Germans don't eat Wheaties, the picture ends with their inevitable escape to England in a captured bomber...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 12/1/1942 | See Source »

Franz Josef a necklace of cameos; King Umberto of Italy a fan. Wrote Victor Hugo after Sarah's performance in his play, Hernani: "I wept. That tear ... is yours." He enclosed a tear-shaped diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Divine Sarah | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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