Word: carded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...body of the CBS correspondent was found in Salonika Bay, thousands of Greek police and dozens of volunteer sleuths from the U.S. had tried to find out. They had plenty of theories, but only one substantial clue: the handwriting on the envelope in which Folk's identity card was returned to the police (TIME, July 5). This week, the clue paid...
Among the 434 European immigrants who landed in Chile this summer was a plump, dreamy-eyed little man named Edward Sienkiewicz. His greying hair was as long as Liszt's; his hands were uncallused and he carried a cello. But the card on his lapel said that he was an expert on fishing, and so he was listed in the catalogue of immigrants' skills...
Signature. In Southampton, England, police explained to the judge how they tracked down Drugstore Burglar Martin Hanley: he left some self-addressed letters and his identity card in the rifled cash register...
...spirit of international conferences should be that of a showdown poker game, not of a court of inquiry: You turn a card, and I will turn a card, rather than upsetting the table and calling you a fraud. While the Russians propose control of atomic energy, our response cannot only be that Bernard Baruch already has offered a fine plan which you nasty people ruined, so that you are clearly not making your offer in good faith now. If this is the adamant attitude of the West, the Russians can counter legitimately (from a point of pure logic) that...
Perhaps the most satisfying moment the office had last year came when a woman walked in with a postal card. It was from the concentration camp in Poland where her husband was interned and it was written in Polish. She spoke only French. A quick look through the files and Holt phoned a student language expert, who translated it from Polish to English. A second man was called to put it into French...