Search Details

Word: wakeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Perhaps I lost my conscience and sense of moral values while serving in the Marine Corps. There we were taught that if one loved his enemies overmuch, he was likely to wake up a very dead pigeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Clearly indicated was the lagoon of some remote atoll. Likely choices: Ulithi, in the western Carolines; Bikar, in the northern Marshalls, or Pokaakku (Taongi) between Bikar and Wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - In a Blue Lagoon | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Right (alas, alas) is Reader Lambert, onetime collaborator with ghost-breaker Harry Price (The Haunting of Cashen's Gap). To a Rip Van Winklish TIME reporter in London: wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...closed Heidelberg, Germany's oldest and most famed university. It was a sorry parody of itself-and had been for ten years. When, in 1936, educators from 32 nations went to Germany to pay their respects on Heidelberg's 550th birthday, they found themselves officiating at a wake. The Student Prince atmosphere of Heidelberg, the beer mugs, the sabers and the sashes were gone. SS uniforms and swastika flags had displaced them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prosit | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

Thus last week, in a U.S. Navy court on Kwajalein atoll, a Japanese war crime on Wake Island in October 1943 was officially detailed for the first time. The victims: U.S. civilians, most of them from western states, who had been building a Navy base when the Japs took Wake four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Retribution | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Previous | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | Next