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Word: careful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Lloyd did something Ma had always warned her boys against: he got mixed up with a woman. He married a skinny, hysterical divorcee named Jennie Wynne. One morning two weeks ago, Jennie took one of her spells and Lloyd begged off work to take care of her. She met him inside the door of their trim, white cottage and blasted his head half off with a 20-gauge shotgun. Last week Charlie Klein closed up the restaurant and some 50 people went out to Brighton for the funeral of the only one of Ma's boys who ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Last of the Barkers | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...year: 1857; the place: Dublin's Synge Street. Mrs. Lucinda Shaw has gone off on a visit to County Galway, leaving her one-year-old son George Bernard (known as "Bob") in care of his father, George Carr Shaw, co-partner in the respectable grain firm of Clibborn & Shaw. Naturally, mother Shaw wants to know exactly what catastrophes are taking place in her absence, so dutiful father Shaw picks up his pen and briefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of Wealth & Very Old | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

When he proposed his legislation at the start of the hearing, Sullivan felt that no institution would be affected by the bill at present, but that he wanted the bill passed as a warning to boards of trustees of college and universities to take care in choosing their staffs...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Harvard Hit as Nest of Reds at H442 Hearing | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

...Tarzan and the Mermaids. The producer has the name Tarzan by the tail and he doesn't care how he uses it... Lack of jungle animals didn't help this any. And where were the mermaids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Behind the Popcorn Popper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...year. His fortune stems from what he has been able to make on Pan American stock, of which he owns or controls some 69,000 shares (now worth 1,000), only 1.1% of Pan Am's 6,145,082 shares. Said one friend: "Trippe doesn't care about making money. He's thinking in terms of domination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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