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Word: wariest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opposing batteries have plenty of respect at all times for Luke, who led the American League's hitters in 1936 and 1943, has a lifetime batting average of 312. But they are wariest when he complains loudest about his health, for it is a long-established fact that he plays best when he feels worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Durable Hypochondriac | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...inevitably misleading as well as mushy. But because the story leaves room for a lot of sincere sentiment and for even more acting-for-acting's sake, the story is also an extremely efficient tear-jerker which can get past the guards of even the wariest. With genteel taste and loving care, RKO has turned it into the best sentimental picture of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Argentina. Wariest of all is balky, recalcitrant Argentina, the bad boy of Pan-Americanism. Though linked by cultural and historical ties to its Yanqui neighbor to the north, Argentina would rather manage the southern theatre itself, has a dread of U. S. dominance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Gentlemen, Be Seated | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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