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Word: unpredictably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bannockburn, where he grows acres of onions, Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn once more broke out his battle flag. Last week Canada's most unpredict able politician returned to the Liberal fold he left two years ago, when he quit as Ontario's Premier and abandoned his Party, thus contributing to its defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: ONTARIO: Back from the Onion Fields | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...demarcation line that runs like a jagged wound across the face of France may look like a juridical fiction, but no frontier in the world is tougher to cross. To refugees, reporters and mail it opens and closes with an exasperating unpredict ability: it is harder to get a letter from Vichy to Paris than from Vichy to Timbuktu. Last week the U. S. saw its first copy of a partial solution: a standardized postcard with blanks to be filled in. Even with blanks it suggested the sufferings of Frenchmen today: " 194 .... in good health tired, .... slightly, gravely, ill, wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Between the Lines | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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