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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last January, I went to the Manila fish market and a friend introduced me to an old man who was carrying a basket of stinking fish. The old man was Arsenio Taruc, a blood relation of Luis Taruc, the elusive Huk (Communist) terrorist. Since his kinsman's outlawry, he had lost his social position and was working as a part-time stevedore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: SURRENDER AT BARRIO SANTA MARIA | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...million dollars are like 300 million eggs in that they would make a mess if put in an unstable basket. It is Cabot's task therefore to place them in widely diversified yet highly profitable baskets, a responsibility which is obviously too staggering...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Treasurer Cabot Invests $308,000,000 | 5/1/1954 | See Source »

...with delightful manners. Her brown bangs and braids, her dimple and the cute gap between her front teeth made her a favorite of all the neighbors. She could devastate her parents by simply tossing her head charmingly and asking: "What will you give me, if I give you a basket of kisses?" The loving reply always was: "I'll give you a basket of hugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Child | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...respective services. In a sense, however, both were assaulting a strawman. When the Eisenhower Administration departed from the witless "balanced-forces" policy (which meant that Army, Navy and Air Force should get about equal appropriations), it did not substitute a policy of putting all the defense eggs in one basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Sidelong Look | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...policy seems to do, will we not in fact invite, rather than deter local aggression in Asia?... How does the new policy deal with... (Soviet techniques) which do not take the form of external aggression...? Can we afford to put all our eggs into a single military basket...

Author: By Harry K. Schwartz, | Title: New Look? | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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