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Word: buttes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...High. Surprised by the killer, Sir Jack, onetime college welterweight boxer, had apparently resisted until two shots got him. Four bullets more accounted for Lady Drummond. Elizabeth, a witness of the murders, had fled toward the river, but the killer had overtaken her, clubbed her to death with the butt of his rifle. If money was his objective, as it possibly was, the killer had overlooked 5,000 francs ($14) in Lady Drummond's handbag. In the river, police found the murder weapon: a U.S. Army M1 carbine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Murder on a Holiday | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Standing on a table to welcome a contingent of Canadian troops, Boatner advised them not to kill unless absolutely necessary: "If you get into a fight [with a prisoner], slash him, use the butt of your rifle, give him the knee in the groin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS: Ticklish Job | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...mothers concluded: "The gun, the gat, the rod, the six-shooter is the prime motivator of most children's TV programs. Life ... is cheaper than a cigarette butt in a gutter. Not one episode, not one character, not one emotion did we see evoked that the children might emulate to their gain." Their recommendation: "If we had our way, we would make it compulsory for every TV official to sit down and take four hours of the punishment we have just taken, but every week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gun, Gat & Rod | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...Young to Kiss (MGM) starts inauspiciously by presenting Van Johnson as the stereotype of a famed concert impresario who reigns, suave and multilingual, over plush offices swarming with international artistes. But this bobby-soxer's S. Hurok quickly becomes the butt of a pleasant little comedy by the scripting team (Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett) of Father of the Bride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 3, 1951 | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...Next to Me." George flicked his cigarette butt away. "The other day," he said, "we had to pull off a hill after we took it. Before we went up. one of my men told me if anything happened, to write to his mother. He got killed. I put his body in a hole. After we got back off the hill, I found that nobody had brought him out. I'd been up there and couldVe got him. It kind of got next to me. I just couldn't get it off my mind. I guess I got pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: First-Aid Post: Mental | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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