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Word: spunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Finland, which last fall showed more spunk than the rest of the Baltic countries put together, was in line for more trouble last week. A gang from the Association-for-Peace-&-Friendship-Between-Finland-and-the-Soviet-Union (for which Moscow claims 20,000 members, Helsinki 200) started a fire in a public square in Helsinki. A Canadian volunteer who had fought in the Russo-Finnish War shot one of the Peace-&-Friendship boys. In Moscow, Tass began blustering against Finland and an incident appeared to be in the making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Justice in The Baltic | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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