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Word: discomforted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their own expense answers to a questionnaire intended to sound British war sentiment. As to the war's outcome, 69.4% "feel confident of an Allied victory"; 27.6% do not; and 1.5% expect a stalemate. Of those who replied, 49.5% called "insecurity for the future" their "greatest wartime discomfort," but 46% are "determined to win at all costs"; 38.7% voted themselves "bewildered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blitzkrieg or Sitzkrieg? | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...luncheon! Many of Maryland's finest recipes for cooking the crab call for milk, and we, after the Philadelphia incident, have made a point of conspicuousness outside of the "Free State," and always couple crab meat and ice cream for our luncheons. We have yet to feel any discomfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...suffice to say that we just don't believe the crab meat caused whatever discomfort the Secretary felt. He can't prove it did and TIME fell into a groove worn too deep by repetition and blamed an old grief-catcher, the crab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...extraordinary how much that feeble light had meant to us. While it was there we had forgotten the intense discomfort. But as soon as it disappeared the world suddenly became a darker and a colder place, and I, for one, felt for the first time the vastness of the ocean. How could any ship hope to find us? It seemed impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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