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Word: wind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish forces against the U.S. in 1898.*When Churchill refuted the charge in a wire to Texas' Tom Connally, Langer exploded in almost unintelligible rage. Churchill, he roared, "is not an enigma wrapped in riddle; he is a cold-blooded foreign propagandist wrapped in a bag of aristocratic wind inside a worldwide graveyard which he helped to create and in which he feels so thoroughly at home that now he wants to do it all over again and get us into one more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Chipping & Chiseling | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...items ranging from the plain leaves to pichicato or la diosa blanca (the white goddess), the drug in its refined form. Snuffing up a pinch of the powder in full view of passers-by last week, one old peddler brazenly solicited customers: "The only danger is that the wind will blow the pichicato away, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White Goddess | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...squad met poor weather most of the way and dropped every game by top heavy scores. Always playing in pouring rain or heavy wind, they lost to North Carolina 27 to 0, Virginia Tech 22 1/2 to 4 1/2, Virginia 5 to 2, and Georgetown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Drops Four; Rain, Wind Jinx Spring Trip | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Strong Wind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Drops Four; Rain, Wind Jinx Spring Trip | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Jack Denton, Crawford Hubbell, and Bill Rickenbacker picked up the Crimson's 4 1/2 points in the loss to Virginia Tech, played in a strong wind. Denton and Rickenbacker both scored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Drops Four; Rain, Wind Jinx Spring Trip | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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