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Word: broom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That's the way to play the game," shouted McKinlay to his grinning skip. The Scot skip was less demonstrative. Soberly he raised his broom, the curler's signal for a well-played shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Americans at the Bonspiel | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...again. Hercules was unwilling, after all. Less than a week after Federal Judge Thomas Murphy let it be understood that he would take on the job of sweeping out the littered corruption of Harry Truman's Administration, he threw up his hands, turned his back on pail and broom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hercules Is Unwilling | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...bench. More important, Murphy had found out that he would not get the tools he needed for a thorough stable-cleaning; he was to get no powers to subpoena witnesses, or to cite them for contempt if they proved balky. The job had been offered as a pail-and-broom detail, but what Tom Murphy needed was a bulldozer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hercules Is Unwilling | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...such Hearst magazines as Harper's Bazaar, House Beautiful and Good Housekeeping have not been touched by the new broom. But their turn may come. A new editor and other new staffers have already moved in on Hearst's American Druggist and it will soon come out fortnightly instead of monthly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shaking the Empire | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...jazzy-looking lad who has walked into his general store. Then his eyes blink back the tears. "Well, I-I see you've grown some. But then, you do grow some between 15 and 23." Before the day is out, Prodigal Son Davie is acting like a new broom, ordering the store front painted bright red, plate glass for the big window, the latest finery for his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reactionary Old Fogy | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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