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Word: weise (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the polar-cold morning of Jan. 28, 1945, 2nd Lieut. Jim Weis of the U.S. Army Air Forces scowled bleakly at his barbed-wire confines and remarked to some fellow P.W.s: "Maybe I'm dead and don't know it." For some 10,000 captured Allied airmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Apocalyptic March | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

The forced march, which cost scores of lives, is the factual backbone of ex-Newsman Joe Klaas's first novel. Like the book's hero Jim Weis, Seattle-born Author Klaas got into World War II in one of Britain's Eagle Squadrons as a Royal Air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Apocalyptic March | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Comedian Skelton plays with fine restraint; his horid face wears a look of such battered averageness that it is hard to see in it the TV clown. As the typical suburban wife, Jean Hagen is as tersely true as the quotient of a questionnaire brought to life. Best of all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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