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Word: tricolors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Spring breezes ruffled the sample ballots tacked (illegally) on doorways, fluttered the big tricolor badges of Senator Joe Guffey's busy Democratic heelers (mostly union men on holiday). But for the Republicans it was not a nice April day. Up & down Philadelphia, as all over the State, guttered a stream of G. O. P. grumbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Pew at Valley Forge | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...efficient is the French supply system was suggested last week by the gravity of the latest complaint of French troops, whose favorite game is Belote (similar to pinochle). Special tricolor playing cards issued to them taxfree, instead of having the usual French revenue stamp on the face of the ace of clubs, have written across the back of that card, "For exclusive use of troops in the field." You can no more play Belote than you can poker with marked cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Marked Cards | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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