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Word: whiff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tooth & Claw. In Newton, Mass., six-month-old C. Melvin Grindrod swallowed a bell, bit the doctor's fingers with his new teeth, maintained the bite until given a whiff of ether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Like a dank whiff from a tomb, the news from Italy flowed over the Alps and oozed across the Reich. People high and low glanced at one another, calculating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: South Wind | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Bossism." "No milk for Hottentots." All the threadbare, empty rhetoric, spouted in the name of the "American Way" by the same coterie who have, at the price of disunity, taken the public by its ears and dragged it away from the cesspool of a global war to get a whiff of the Administration's "sewer of bureaucracy." Visions of the 1944 election are crowding the nation's war and peace problems out of the minds of these political snipers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opportunist Knocking | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...last whiff of smoke blew off the wreck-strewn El Hemeimat battlefield, one thing appeared to be certain: the British had not only rocked Rommel's Afrika Korps back on its heels; they had given it a drubbing. If at least two observers, Winston Churchill and Wendell Willkie, could be believed, the Axis had suffered a major defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EGYPT: Britain's Round | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...bombing raid on San Francisco.] Sure, exhilarated at the prospect of getting a splash of lewisite-even a feeling of elation at the prospect of seeing arms, legs and torsos flung into the treetops. You guys make me sick . . . almost as sick as I'd be after a whiff of noxious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1942 | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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