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Word: braine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never before in his public life. Nobody was challenging his rights as a Senator. Nobody was attacking his license to hunt Communists. But the Army, in taking aim, could not have been more menacing. It had drawn a careful bead on the one-man subcommittee's real brain, the precocious, brilliant, arrogant young man whom McCarthy had come to regard as indispensable-"as indispensable." said Joe, "as I am." And Roy Cohn, thanks to a lifetime process of self-inflation, presented a lovely target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Self-Inflated Target | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...glass. A fearful few on the higher ledges kick savagely at those who struggle near; the weary majority simply hang on, motionless as skewered lepidoptera. Climbers tumble off daily into a shadowed limbo below, to live out grey lives without Cadillacs, swimming pools or cell space in the brain of Louella O. Parsons. But television's Jack Randolph Webb, 33. has never faltered or looked down; he has gone up, up, up, limber as an Indian brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jack, Be Nimble! | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...Beauvoir's publishers have jacketed the book with a picture of the kind of sultry number for whom strong men lose their wits. This is a mistake. She Came to Stay is an admirable novel not because there is a blonde in it, but because there is a brain back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dynamite in the Tower | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

Like all Burmese work elephants, Bandoola was mobilized in World War II and helped build the Burma Road. His end came suddenly and mysteriously. One day in 1945, Author Williams found him dead, with a 30-caliber bullet through his brain. To this day, he does not know Bandoola's killer, but he suspects that Po Toke, aged, ailing and unwilling to trust his beloved Bandoola to another oozie, fired the fatal shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beasts as Heroes | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

Senator Bricker's own brain child, an amendment to his original resolution, gave up the ghost quietly enough, but the protracted anguish came on the question of final Senate passage for a milder proposal that had been submitted by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vote, Vote, Vote | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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