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Word: caste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier's body was dug up and stripped of its uniform, which was sprinkled with gasoline and burned. Then the body was dusted with salt, wrapped in a white sheet and gently reburied. Relatives announced that this was the only means of breaking a "hex" which he had cast on his widow, 22-year-old Mrs. Rosella Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...midst of this, Andrei Gromyko, who cast 25 Soviet vetoes at the U.N. Security Council, was appointed First Deputy Foreign Minister, Vishinsky's old job. More entrails for the soothsayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Tap Day at the Kremlin | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...book, written by Clem Wood and Jingo Carroll, while not up to the standards set by the score, is consistently competent as a vehicle and perfectly adapted to the cast. The plot--The New Deal a la Luce in sleepy Anygnay, S.A.--is sufficiently irrational to set off the sharpness of the lines themselves, and needs comparatively little further consideration...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: "Tomorrow Is Manana" | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

...Mhyrum as Roderigo, "the peon's amigo," Nick Benton as Roxanne Rye, and Palmer Dixon's leering portrayal of Fingers Spumoni carry the scenes where the script itself might not sustain a non-musical interlude; but it remained for Fred Gwynne, cast as Pablo the Peon, to stop the show...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: "Tomorrow Is Manana" | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

Seventy-four percent of the freshman class cast their ballots in the election, which was supervised by the Student Council's Freshman Affairs Committee. Bawdy sex in campaign themes was prevented by this Committee with the hope that the entire Jubilee can be kept under control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Choose Committee To Manage Jubilee May 6, 7 | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

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