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Word: trousering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great was imprisoned by his father so that he would learn "the meaning of Prussianism." At cadet schools young Fedor showed by his unbreakable spirit that he already understood something of that meaning. By 1910 he had talked his way into the right to wear red stripes down his trouser legs-the badge of a general staffer. He had begun making speeches with the refrain: "Our profession should always be crowned by a heroic death for the Emperor and the Fatherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Death on the Approaches | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Seats. In Denver, Highway Police Supervisor Joseph Marsa, faced with the fact that the department had no money to repair the force's thinning trouser seats, said his men might soon be forced to "call politely out of the car window to traffic violators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...only damage I sustained was a hefty bruise on my right shoulder from hitting the tail as I jumped, and a bruise on my leg, and a torn trouser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...They showed her a photograph of a "suicide note" he had supposedly written, would not let her have the original. Two lines were copied from letters she had already received; the rest was in a strange handwriting. They said the note was found in one of Jimmy's trouser pockets. Jimmy's trousers, which they gave her, were soaked with blood. There was no blood on the note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blast All of You! | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...formation and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1917 The Beaver began making a huge Fleet Street fortune by giving London a cockeyed version of low-brow U. S. journalism. "I have all the money any man can want!" Lord Beaver brook likes to boast, slapping his trouser pocket for dramatic emphasis while conservative Britons shudder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: National Government | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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