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Word: tensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personally, I think we shall win this war but only after tens of thousands of people have been needlessly killed, but let me offer this warning: If this generation of soldiers returns home to a collapsed and chaotic economic system due to inflation or any other cause that might easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

But Hitler was mad as hell. The six million foreign workers already in Germany were not enough. He needed more, and he wanted those Frenchmen who were not willing slaves: they could be exchanged for Naziphile prisoners, and France's best blood thus diluted by its worst. Laval did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anesthesia in France | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

The Treasury, said he, still does not want a sales tax, but if there must be one, it ought to be a general tax on retail sales of both goods and services. He estimated that a 5% levy would yield about $2.5 billion. But he unloosed another stinger: a scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Gives Orders | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

It was not in poor Poland that they placed their faith. Poland's dictator. General Edward Smigly-Rydz, bravely declared: "We shall win by the Holy Passion of our Lord. He will lead us to victory.'' Poland's passionate Catholics and her skull-capped Jews, marked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Three Years Ago | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

"Thus are working tens of thousands of people making munitions, ships and food products, and caring for the wounded. The river plays a vital part in industrial life. At Volga piers land oil tankers and other ships loaded with iron and foods. The noise of machines and the song of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Traitors & Patriots | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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