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Word: wickednesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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He was a great leader to have during the blitz. His personality was all roast beef and there was something of the thick British fog in the voice that uttered the inspiring words. When Winston Churchill donned his flat-topped bowler and walked among the bomb craters, the people felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dizzy Eminence | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Noteworthy reactions to hulking, humorless Novelist Theodore Dreiser's damnation of the British war effort, in which he said he preferred Nazi rule in Britain to rule by "aristocratic, horse-riding snobs": Pearl Buck, Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, F.P.A., other members of the Writers' War Board said the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Point, Counterpoint | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

. . . The British decision to outlaw the Indian National Congress [TIME, Aug. 17] at a time when no overt act of disobedience had taken place ... is regarded by many as justified. . . . Yet even those who accept this view know in their hearts that there could be no graver disaster to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Victim No. 2 was Mrs. Pauline Thompson, 31, whom Leonski met on May 9. "I remember a woman singing in my ear," Leonski said. "She had a nice voice. We came to a long flight of stone steps, and I grabbed her by the throat. I wanted her to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Mother's Boy | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Little Japs are infiltrating U.S. factories, beaming and slavering with wicked satisfaction but doing no good to Japan. They are all versions of one & the same little Jap, Douglas. Aircraft Co.'s gargoyle-like cartoon character, "The Tokio Kid." Created as part of the company's drive to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Tokio Kid | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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