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Word: thinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Part Good Fellowship. There was one point I wanted to clear up. "Why," I asked spinners in the plant canteen, "do you think America is doing this?" Answered Jan Missink, a wiry, blond fellow, seven members of whose family work for the company: "Americans really want to help us; they know that under the Russians we would be lost, as we were under the Germans." Said Berend Groote: "Yes, it is part self-interest and part sportief [good fellowship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Galveston v. Peat Bogs | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...think so," replied Mrs. Gottwald. "My husband is so busy. But we shall send him a telegram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...seized the troops awaiting air transport. Soldiers, ignoring orders, were fighting their way on to planes already on the field. Intermingled in the disorderly jam of troops, women dressed in soldiers' uniforms struggled to keep squalling infants from getting crushed. "My God," drawled a tall Texan, "they must think these planes are made of rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: What Are We Usually Doing? | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...three hours before the SS Hwafoo discovered the stricken ship, four hours before the Hwafoo's SOS brought rescue vessels. When the SS Mouli pulled alongside, a Kiangya officer quieted the clamor of the terrified survivors by warning them, "Don't shout, or they will think there are too many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Too Many of Us | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Margaret Truman, the lioness of the evening, showed up fresh and glowing in white satin and orchids. She and her hosts -the family of Thomas J. ("Think") Watson-arrived 20 minutes after the curtain belatedly rose. After all this, the Metropolitan Opera got down to what it tried hard to regard as the point of the proceedings, Verdi's Otello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Curtain Up in New York | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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