Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...autopsy on the last man to die, he thought of yellow jack. He checked, found that all five dead were jungle farmers from an area 35 miles east of Panama City. He sent part of the last man's liver to Washington. Last week the Pan American Sanitary Bureau made it official: the five had died of jungle yellow fever...
...Mallard had put up an awful fuss. Even after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had charged her with the murder herself she wouldn't shut up. They let her out of jail after a few hours, and what did Amy do? She ran off and hid in Savannah and said she was scared and got her name in the papers...
Many of the thousands of refugees daily fleeing Communist tyranny make their way into Berlin. Last week, TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes visited a city government office newly set up to receive them. Hughes cabled...
Looking them over, bustling little James Parton got an idea. Parton, onetime Harvard cross-country runner ('34) and wartime lieutenant colonel, had been a TIME staffer since 1935, was then Los Angeles bureau chief. He figured that combining the most successful giveaways would be one way to establish a profitable citywide newspaper with ready-made readership and advertising revenue...
...Proctors should say to themselves every five minutes "I am not now, nor was I ever, a representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." By doing this, they might be able to eliminate the stealthy creep and the awful eye that characterize so many Harvard examination rooms. A student taking an exam is a pathetic creature. Let him at least feel that if he looks around the room or glances at his watch, he is not in danger of instant indictment by the House Un-American Activities Committee...