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Word: vile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a lull during vile weather, the air war against Germany picked up in full force as 1,500 U.S. planes attacked Berlin and Brunswick, forcing the Luftwaffe fighter command into a savage battle which cost 125 Nazi fighters against 26 U.S. bombers and 19 fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Gathering Storm | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Swept the vile invader from our path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Songs for the New World | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...rather more fervent than fertile minds of his gag-writers (three of whom, he claims, are beavers) have made good pictures out of the most terrible ones, and they have done it once again with "Let's Face It." No matter how stale the plot or how vile the odour of his surroundings, Hope spring eternal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Let's Face It" | 11/5/1943 | See Source »

...MIRAKEL -E. Phillips Oppenheim - Little, Brown ($2). The Oppen-heimily-colored, romantic and adventurous tale of a rich London hotel owner who transported a bevy of war-weary cosmopolites to a fantastic Utopia where man, of course, decided to be entertainingly vile. Good Oppenheim and pleasant diversion for an empty evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: October Mysteries | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...annual pilgrimage to Ome Tochtli (Two Rabbit, God of Drunkenness) in Tepoxtlaá, staggered into Mexico City last week to find themselves bedeviled by cops, shrill women and crackdowns, tempted with low-taxed beer. The Mexican Government was full swing in its campaign to wean peons away from their vile national drink, pulque (pronounced pool-kay), educate them up to beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Debate in Mexico | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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