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Word: arrowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jungle's Choice. He was a chief of the Gonds, a tribe living in the dense jungles of the former princely state of Bastar, in central India. Among his own people, Kesa was a great man, a mighty hunter with bow & arrow, the husband of 14 dutiful wives. For years, Kesa had run the affairs of his tribe under the benevolent rule of his master, the Maharaja of Bastar. But then, in 1950, democracy came to the jungle. The new constitution abolished the rule of the maharajas and elections were to be held to send representatives to Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Captive Candidate | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...secretary fled. So they got Kesa a ticket back home to Bastar and promised him protection-and another secretary-for the next session. Meanwhile, last week, Representative Kesa was happy among his constituents and his 14 wives, with plenty of time to exercise his long neglected bow & arrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Captive Candidate | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Miru sailed out of Wellington harbor. On board were Dr. Davis, his New Zealand wife Lydia, and his sons John, 10, and Timothy, 5. For crew they had Neil Arrow, an artist, and Bill Donovan, who is heading for Sweden to study ceramics. They also had two cats, but one jumped overboard and the other died of seasickness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Round Trip to Peru | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Lure of the Wilderness (20th Century-Fox) is a title presumably meant to describe Jean Peters, a shapely swamp girl who runs around Georgia's Okefenokee mudflats dressed in tight-fitting buckskin shirt and trousers and armed with a bow & arrow. Jean lives in the swamp with her father (Walter Brennan), who has been hiding out from the law for eight years because he once killed a man in self-defense. One day a handsome youth (Jeffrey Hunter) ventures into the Okefenokee to search for his missing dog, and stumbles on Jean. What is this strange, perplexing passion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Hostilities commenced about noon, when Henry B. Burnett, Jr. '52 parked his car in front of the Center on Arrow Street and started to repair his accelerator. Holland and James S. Nicholson '54 stopped to superintend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feeney, Gold Coasters Tiff Over Car | 5/31/1952 | See Source »

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