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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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-Created in 1943 by Britain's People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, to honor animal bravery in the armed forces, and named for the dispensary's founder, Maria Elizabeth Dickin.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Honored Memory | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The C.G.I.L., Italy's Communist-dominated Confederation of Labor, tried to stage a one-day general strike. Purported reason: to protest the deaths of two peasants who had tried to seize idle land and been killed in battles with police. The strike was an even more dismal flop than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Flop | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The most telling index of Red defeat was the fact that even the staffs of the Communist Unita and the left-wing Socialist Avanti went to work to put out their papers, after it became apparent that other papers in Italy would publish on schedule. The Reds had boasted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Flop | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Private Noel Moncaster, of the Royal Pioneer Corps stationed at Luneburg, had already had a drink or two too many when he spotted a seductive fraulein on a street corner. She invited him to a party and Noel accepted. That was in May 1947. Last week, lighter by 35 Ibs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Lorelei & the Private | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

"We got on a train," Moncaster told his superior officers, "and I went to sleep. The next thing I knew, I was walking around a town seeing Russian soldiers on the street. At first the Russians didn't notice me, but on the third day they turned up at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Lorelei & the Private | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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