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Word: arounders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just where your writer digs up this deluded data? The poor misguided jerk must either not have been around at all, or he went around once too often. We at Wilson High, Long Beach, pride ourselves on our high percentage of wheels, but we most certainly have no such idiosyncrasies as your article describes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...morning sun fell on Manhattan's Foley Square, but the room in the skyscraper courthouse was cast in majestic gloom. The babbling of the spectators in the pewlike benches had stopped. Wary-eyed deputy marshals, their numbers reinforced, had ranged themselves around the crowded room, against its marble walls. Eleven bosses of the Communist Party, on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, now at the hour of reckoning, sat inside the rail behind their five lawyers. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, their unsmiling antagonist, rested his grey head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Presence of Evil | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...boat. He lost in the lower courts, but won a reversal in the Supreme Court. The case cost him $800 and a lot of embarrassment. ("My friends wouldn't talk to me. I got spit on in the court.") By then he was making around $100,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Presence of Evil | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

None of this guaranteed victory to James Michael Curley. The old man liked it better when the ring was crowded; there was a choice of targets, and his opponents might knock each other out instead of him. Curley might yet be around to horrify Boston's reformers for another term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Protector of the People | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...demands-a great market for progress. Most Turks would understand the words of Celtik village's oldest inhabitant, 92-year-old Hayriye Soydan. Stooped, wrinkled and deaf, she still wears the traditional western Anatolian peasant costume-flowered baggy trousers, dark blouse, a blue-and-white yasmak (handkerchief) around her head. Sitting cross-legged on a long sofa, she told her (and, in a sense, Turkey's) story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Wild West of the Middle East | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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