Search Details

Word: ariz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...last official acts, retiring Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg handed a pilot's wings to his son, Lieut. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr. He also told graduates at Williams Air Force Base, Ariz., that "the greatest fraternity on the face of the earth are the people who wear wings . . . You are not just jet jockeys . . . Take up the broader duty of understanding and preaching the role of air power . . . The people who won't face the truth . . . must be told repeatedly, earnestly, logically that air power will save the world from destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Every true space cadet knows that the famous, 4,000-ft-wide crater near Winslow, Ariz, was made by a giant meteorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coincidence in Arizona | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...desert cactus, and fear of their dark power is as real as the daily struggle for a living. For years there has been no more powerful bruja on either side of the border than sly, dark-haired Maria Concepcion Estrella Miranda, leading practitioner of the occult in dusty Guadalupe, Ariz. (pop. 850). Few in Guadalupe did not believe that she could cause sickness or death simply by sticking bobby-pins with little doughball heads into any of the 200-odd photographs she kept secreted in her middle room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARIZONA: The Witch of Guadalupe | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Shorts & Overs. In Phoenix, Ariz., sheriff's deputies rushed to investigate a shooting, learned that a woman had stood ten feet from her husband and fired six pistol shots at him, all misses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1953 | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...Tucson, Ariz. Daily Star provides us with an appropriate sequel to an item which appeared in TIME's Miscellany section Dec. 8. The story told of Pfc. Richard Barcello of Tucson, wounded on Triangle Hill, being carried to a field hospital by another soldier from Tucson, and then being treated by a doctor from Tucson. When Barcello reached the base hospital near Tokyo, the Star reported, the nurse assigned to him was Lieut. Norma Ashburn-from Tucson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Previous | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | 304 | 305 | 306 | 307 | 308 | 309 | 310 | 311 | 312 | Next