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Word: agente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After LaMarca told his story, police and federal agents moved out to seek corroboration. Lined up an arm's length apart, 60 searchers began their slow walk through the thicket. After an hour FBI Agent J. Robert Boger, on his hands and knees in the underbrush, caught the glint of a safety pin. He groped again through a mass of brush and vines, found fragments of clothing, then found what Nassau County's medical examiner later identified as "the remains of an infant child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Telltale Letters | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Thank You, John." Far into the morning the unhappy warriors, bossed by A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, fanned out in a relentless search for a copy of the plank. At length they got it; when the subcommittee presented its plank to the full platform committee, a civil-rights agent smuggled out a penciled version of the wording. Now Reuther & Co. set earnestly to work. Nothing would suit the band except the insertion of a sentence in the plank reading, "We pledge to carry out these [Supreme Court] decisions," and the addition of a paragraph from the 1952 platform calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLATFORMS: Something to Live With | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...Viva Eisenhower!" The route-like virtually everything else in the area, from doorways to rooftops-had been canvassed, scouted, cased and haunted by guards and secret-service agents of all the American republics, including a thorough, unobtrusive U.S. Secret Service detail headed by Spanish-speaking Agent John Campion. Ike rode a good part of the 17 miles standing up in the car, waving and smiling. As the 14-car cavalcade neared the outskirts of the city, the crowds got bigger. Bunched six-deep along the streets, the Panamanians shouted "Viva Eisenhower ! Viva Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Convalescent Abroad | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...been clearly demonstrated," said Heald, "that a member of the Communist Party is not a free agent, intellectually or politically. He cannot claim academic freedom because he has forsaken the principles of academic freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hardheaded Boss | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...Agent Provocateur. In Crescent Beach, S.C., after three vacationers called police to report a bee swarm blocking the way into their house, Police Chief Howard Bailey replied: "I can't beat a bee with a blackjack, I can't shoot them and I can't arrest them. Tell you what. If you'll get 'em drunk, I'll come down and see what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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