Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "war-time".
The tall bony one had already disappeared, and presumbly he was at the wheel, for the engine roared up even before the door slammed, and the car leapt away with a grind of spinning tires that would have made any normal war-time motorist wince.
In amongst her various bewilderments Sandy was fascinated by the economy of Teddy Lloyd's method, as she had been four years earlier by Miss Brodie's variations on her love story, when she had attached to her first, war-time lover the attributes of the art master and the singing master who had then newly entered her orbit.
I mean the Central Powers to return from a war-time to a peace-time basis?
They could really have him in a cleft stick if they had all that on their war-time files, squeezing him until he cracked ?
In some mysterious fashion the cushion stopped the pain from exploding into one of its sudden borealises, as Hay tended to think of those excruciating flare-ups when his whole body would be electrified by jolts of pain -- originating in the atrophied -- if not worse -- prostate gland, whose dictatorship ordered his life, obliging him to pass water or, painfully, not to pass water, a dozen times during the night, accompanied by a burning sensation reminiscent of his youth when he had briefly contracted in war-time Washington a minor but highly popular venereal infection.
His passenger turns out to be Maurice Lenden, an old war-time comrade, who has just crash-landed a high-speed French bomber .