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Word: yanks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garters: "Public life consists of charging into doorways to yank them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Raw and Unrestrained | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...reaches a lonely water-hole and tries to trick a thirsty (water-thirsty this time) German battalion into surrender, although the well has run dry. The trick doesn't quite work, and our team has to fight it out. Most of them get killed, but Hairbreadth Humphrey and another Yank capture what is left of 500 Germans. It all sounds like a Hollywood fairy tale, but is staged convincingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF TO DOPE YANK TALK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Three Little Words | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...Parker School (375 children, all ages) pooh-poohed the Post Office, testified he had found such words as "whore" in Shakespeare, "sono-va-bitch" in the Chicago Tribune. He looked at an Esquire cartoon in which a harem beauty with a "Happy Birthday" tag on her ankle approaches two Yanks in the desert. Says one Yank to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Experts Failed to Blush | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Year-having proved themselves better than Axis supermen: Ivan, Tommy and Yank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1943 | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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