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Word: lorelei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lorelei Song. The Big Four had agreed to meet in Paris May 23 to consider "questions relating to Germany and the problems arising out of the situation in Berlin, including also questions of currency in Berlin." What lay behind this bland clause was clear. Russia wanted control of Germany. Having failed to get it through the Berlin blockade, Russia would try again, with different tactics, at the Paris conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Positions for Paris | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...mosquito's love song is only faintly audible to the human ear. But to male mosquitoes it is apparently overwhelming. Dr. Kahn turned on his loudspeaker. A wave of excitement hummed through the swamp. On eager wings the males zoomed toward the trap. Like mariners wrecked by Lorelei's song, the male mosquitoes smacked against the electrified screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Siren's Song | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Died. Edna Hibbard, 47, stage comedienne; in Manhattan. She made her biggest hit as Dorothy, the mercenary brunette companion of the mercenary blonde Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

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