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Word: willfullness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the prisoner suspected of informing on these heroes the camp had a secret court, judge and jury. "Willful treason" was punishable by death-the stool pigeon surreptitiously dropped through a hole in the ice of the Oder River. Willful disclosure of minor information was punished by six rounds in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

Trial to All. From his first workout, Trainer Don Cameron and the staff at Stoner Creek, the Hertzes' Kentucky farm, had their hands full. Count Fleet was mischievous, willful. During a morning breeze he used to stop suddenly and paw the air. He walked sideways, jumped over his shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Count of Stoner Creek | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

For five years, under the good-natured, timid leadership of Conductor Barbirolli, it acted like a willful nag without a rider. When the directors supplemented Conductor Barbirolli with a string of famous guest conductors, the orchestra became more balky and independent than ever. The visiting conductors began to refer to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dead End Kids' New Boss | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

Winston Churchill's hunched body rose, his heavy gold watch chain shining in Parliament's yellow-glassed sunlight. His hands were in the pockets of his jacket. His great, willful, strangely babylike head surveyed a packed House, and his words began to growl. For two days Winston Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Muddles & Mismanagements | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

But, if the delinquency is willful, the Federal Government has a big stick: a $10,000 fine, a year in jail. Anyway, most citizens would rather go to any expense than tangle with a Revenue man.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle Ben and Uncle Sam | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

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