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Word: caine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just what did George Catlett Marshall consider the Korean business anyway, asked Washington's Harry Cain, "a police action ... a large or a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The MacArthur Hearing: The Limited War | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...usually forthright Senator Paul Douglas said he couldn't make up his mind about TV's "technical difficulties" and "distractions." Ohio's Senator Taft complained that, on TV, "the Senators are talking to the people rather than to each other." Washington's Senator Harry Cain was so touched by the plight of some witnesses cited for contempt that he felt they might just have been frightened "by all those lights and apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Proceed with Caution | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...milk snake, which is supposed to sneak into barns and milk cows, or 3) a cannibal snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah's wife (probably Naamah). For no reason that Chapman and his associates can figure out, the most recurrent question is: "Do Indians have beards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Indians, Snakes & Noah | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...anyone who had seen Army's assortment of spectacular ball-carriers perform in Cambridge, it was incredible that men like Pollock, Stephenson, Pollard, Fischl, and Cain should be rendered ineffective by Navy's stout defensive line. To the Army backs, it must have been more than some what embarrassing to be stopped by a line which had yielded generous amounts of yardage to inferior offenses all season. And to the younger Blaik, Armys' quarterback, it must have been a frustrating afternoon--he was like the driver of a high powered motor car which repeatedly stalls...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Navy Won on Spirit and Excellent Defense | 12/5/1950 | See Source »

Even so, Reader Cain should have taken a stab at the Burning Bright theater program, which gave the title's source as Blake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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