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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quick Action. In Milwaukee, finding a $15.75 Government check, Dewayne Miover forged a signature and cashed it, after his arrest found that it had been made out to an FBI agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Martins Yellow itself is just the first of the seven products in the experiment, from which most of the others are directly or indirectly derived. It is used as both a dye and moth-proofing agent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Nears Fieser Time | 5/19/1954 | See Source »

...references to espionage in the current investigation are not Jenkins' first brush with that subject. 'In 1950 he was appointed by a federal judge to defend Alfred Dean Slack, who was accused of delivering secret information from the Holston Ordnance Works at Kingsport, Tenn. to a Communist agent. On advice of counsel, Slack pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 15 years. Then he appealed, contending that Jenkins had not advised him properly. The Circuit Court, ruling that Jenkins had done his job well, gave him an unusual accolade. Said the opinion: " [Jenkins] has earned and enjoys a fine reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Terror of Tellico Plains | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...Were you sent into the jungle by an agent of the Chinese Nationalists?" "No," said Piao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: Jungle Justice | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...Poet Francis Jerringham, a Roman Catholic convert, who is acidly etched by his literary agent as a "Vatican valet" and "Roman meistersinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Earl on the Ledge | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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