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Word: cliffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tallyho! Near Bristol, England, a fox led twelve headlong hounds to a cliff's edge, ducked safely into a hole as the dogs plunged over the brink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...toiled up the heights discovered no key to the mystery. The plane had ploughed into a steep cliff, 50 feet below the top of the hill, had vanished almost as completely as if the fire-blackened rock had opened and engulfed it. There were a few pieces of metal, few larger than a man's hand. Fifty feet from the point of impact lay a golf club and a child's toy train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Fire on the Hill | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

There was only one possible method of burial. Sober-faced workmen packed 300 pounds of dynamite to the cliff, tamped it into the rock, set it off. An avalanche rumbled down. As had been done after the recent Newfoundland crash of a Belgian Sabena airliner, a Catholic priest, a Protestant clergyman and a Jewish rabbi read burial services from a plane which circled overhead. Then the wilderness fell silent again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Fire on the Hill | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Cain and Abel (Ballet Russe), by Hollywood's David Lichine. Adam's two husky sons, wearing swimming trunks, writhe on the floor in sweating ecstasy before Cain heaves Abel from a cliff, then drags Mother Eve across the set by her hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Feather Feud | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...thing I will admit is wrong with most soap opera is cliffhanging. I never, never, cliff-hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Queen's Plaything | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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