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Word: underground (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koreans, oppressed for the last 40 years by Japanese masters, although they conducted an underground government aimed at the sabotage of Nipponese imperialism and have assisted the American occupation for as long as they could conscientiously believe in it, still are given a polite brushoff whenever they broach the matter of entry into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...officer of an illegal organization, he served almost three years in Kingston Penitentiary. After he got out he helped stage the 1935 March of the Unemployed on Ottawa, conducted a training school for Communists, edited the Communist Clarion. At the outbreak of World War II he went underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: What Made Sam Run | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...enough wind to dilute its radioactive cooling gases below the danger point. Elaborate studies are being made by the U.S. Geological Survey to make sure that no radioactive wastes get into Long Island's water supply. The "hot" uranium slugs from Brookhaven's pile will be put underground to keep them from making trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Fourth R | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...assigned to Marcel Cachin, 79-year-old director of L'Humanité. As dean of the Assembly he made the inaugural address. Almost his first remark was a reference to Eisenhower as "that illustrious American soldier." When he quoted Eisenhower's tribute to the French underground, even the Rightists clapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Peace on the Bargain Counter | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...tiny office at the end of the dark corridor, they are greeted by Helmuth Rosenow-a tall, thin man in his late 303. In Nazi days he was a courier in the Socialist underground, traveling regularly between Prague and Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: How Long Must We Wait? | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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