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Word: bashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill, a sturdy monogamist himself, pointed out the loopholes to prospective wife-killers. If you are anxious to avoid hanging, he said, "you can strangle her, hold her head in a gas oven . . . stab her, cut her throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Noose Wins | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Miss Stenz treats baldness with two solutions (one red, one white) developed by her partner, Biochemist Irwin J. Bash. The solutions, says Bash, make the scalp unpalatable to the fungus. Some of the satisfied customers who believe that their scalps have been de-fungused and re-haired by Stenz & Bash: Cinemactors Jimmy Stewart, Dick Powell, Gig Young, Gene Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bald Claims | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...hunted convicts sought shelter. Werner Schwartzmiller, 35, who vas doing 40 years for a murder attempt, chose Laurence Oliver's farmhouse. There he held the Olivers at bay until plucky Mrs. Oliver, firmly clasping a claw hammer beneath a capacious apron, worked her way close enough to bash him on the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Trouble in Little Siberia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Chicago Black Hawk swung the first punch and Detroit's Red Wings shook off their heavy gloves-the better to bash an enemy nose. Reinforcements swarmed on to the ice from both benches; Referee Frank ("King") Clancy, who wasn't mad at anybody until he got slugged by a zealous spectator, began swinging too. For twelve minutes, with no cops in sight, there was bedlam last week in Chicago's jampacked Stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Rocket | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...often he and his mother had nothing on their table but a candle and a plate of spaghetti. Joe swore he would conquer poverty. He became a professional boxer, and finally, fourteen years ago, bought a bar & grill on Brooklyn's bleak Third Avenue. This year black-haired, bash-nosed Joe Bonavita was 39, married, prosperous in a small way and eating well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Manna from Brooklyn | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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