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Word: think (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denny were only four months old then. The doctor said he didn't want to be cruel, but he didn't know whether an operation would help ... I went home . . . As I sat in the nursery holding my two babies and crying, the only thing I could think of was that I had to tell 'Brown,' my husband. He came running into the house whistling and shouting, 'Where are my two babies?' He always says something like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Faith & Hope | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...where Willie lay in state. Beneath it was the sentence: "We mourn our loss." Four thousand of his union brothers & sisters crowded into the high-vaulted auditorium for the service. Outside 20,000 more heard the impassioned voice of Union President David Dubinsky exhort the mourners: "Little did we think that in 1949 we would have to sacrifice a man. What a mistake that employer made! This union will not permit it, no matter what the police department or the district attorney want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Funeral for Willie | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...slate of their stooges and then ask you to vote yes so they can claim the stooges are democratically elected. The last time we had the choice between 'Ja' and 'Nein,' it was forced upon us by another great democrat named Adolf Hitler. Do they think we are crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Journey to the West | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Even with the most successful summer campaign Van Fleet does not think that the guerrillas can be finally defeated this year, but his plans call for cleaning them out of all Greece except the northern frontier areas. Actually, some military observers believe that Van Fleet is too optimistic, that the guerrillas will continue tormenting Greece as long as they are supplied and equipped from abroad. Last week Van Fleet still stood by what he had said when he first came to Greece: "My advice to the rebels is to give up now. Either stay and get killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With Will to Win | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Amid Japan's general satisfaction, bushy-haired Prince Chichibu, 46-year-old brother of Emperor Hirohito, spoke a few words of caution. "I think this is the beginning of recovery," he said, "but there are still so many black-market millionaires in Japan that honest people have lost the will to work." Chichibu doubts that Japan's slender resources can support her huge and growing population. An avid fan of Li'l Abner, the Prince wistfully recalled his hero's fabulous friend which, as a kind of one-animal Marshall Plan, had promised to provide humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Blossoms Are Opening | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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