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Word: rowse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Women. The defendants sat in their long dock, three rows deep, large identification numbers on their chests, listening impassively. The 26 men were grave and sodden. The 19 women kept an insolent composure. There was prune-faced Juana Borman (whose wolfhound liked to tear prisoners to pieces). There was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Inferno on Trial | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

... If "the clergy, educators, labor unions" could walk amongst the rows of white crosses in the cemeteries; if they could see a boy die, or smell the stench of death, they could realize how fed up and tired and sick we are of seeing soldiers killed. It is up to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1945 | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

The time has come, I think, for someone to launch a vigorous protest against the use of "brass hats" in the derogatory way it is usually employed in your magazine. You always seem to imply that all "brass hats" are pompous, narrow-minded obstructionists and that the war would get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1945 | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

One Scoop, One Dollar. Along Manila's streets, the stratospheric prices have already sprouted rows of cheap wood and tin shops amid the ruins. There, Filipinos and free-spending U.S. soldiers & sailors can buy a scoop of ice cream for $1 ; a pair of U.S.-made shoes for $120...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Manila Market | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson, looking and listening throughout the trial, wrote this account: The prisoners' dock was a picket-fence pen knocked together out of boards salvaged from packing cases. It contained four rows of seats, four to a row. Around the dock there was a plethora of blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Frightened Poles | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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