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Word: wreathing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here veiled and hidden in a rhyming wreath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Prophecy | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...Algiers monument to the dead of World War I General de Gaulle placed a wreath. He stepped back, saluted, stood in meditation. Then he turned around, his tall figure silhouetted against the white memorial, and raised his arms in a great V. The crowd roared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Army of Liberation | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

...Then, with traditional Russian courtesy, he inquired about his visitor's health (ailing Joe Davies had brought to Russia a supply of dehydrated food and an intestinal specialist). The informal chat touched on Joe Davies' stop-off at Stalingrad to lay a wreath on the unknown Russian soldiers' grave. Remarked Stalin quickly: Did Mr. Davies see the graves of 96,000 Germans near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Missionary's Return | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...light cruiser Artemis. Her job: with the help of four other light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, to escort a convoy to Malta. In the Artemis' crow's nest Ordinary Seaman Quimsby, his padded perch whirling "in prodigious circles against the sky," sees a faint wreath of smoke on the Mediterranean skyline and in a few minutes, "climbing over . . . the curve of the world," come six enemy cruisers, vanguard of an Italian force of battleships and destroyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kinds of Fighting | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...weekly laurel Wreath goes to the little salad dispenser at Cowie, so vote Morgan and Nec. The citation comes as a result of here consistent, methodical, and relentless application of Chef's Salad Bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walking the Plank | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

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