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Word: canes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London papers, the big story quickly became not George-Brown's resignation but press coverage of his subsequent tumble. After the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Express all carried front-page photos of the elder statesman's dive, the lordly Times weighed in with a cane-wagging editorial scolding them for lack of "compassion and delicacy" in showing George-Brown "fallen in the gutter." Perhaps, the Times added sarcastically, the other papers "resented his infringing their monopoly" there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After the Fall | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...From the same family as philodendron and dieffenbachia (dumb cane), which are also poisonous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Hartman's List of Lethal Foliage | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

That is pure fiction and simple inattention to detail. As Chavez says (on page 212) someone gave him a cane, "and by the time we got to Modesto where I celebrated my birthday on the fifteenth day of the march, I was okay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEFENDING LA CAUSA | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

...robbed William Alfred '38, professor of English, at gunpoint at his Cambridge home Friday evening, stealing two dollars and a cane given to him by the late philosopher Raphael Demos...

Author: By Steven P. Lansky, | Title: Alfred Robbed | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...Paramaribo. There were hundreds of doctors, teachers and merchants among the emigrants, and the manpower hemorrhage included not only professionals but critically important farm workers as well. Surinam, a nation that imports more than 50% of its foodstuffs, must now also import farm workers to help harvest its sugar cane crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SURINAM: Birth Pangs of a Polyglot State | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

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