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Word: daubing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within ten minutes, five guardsmen were fatally wounded. "We had no chance of fighting back," said one of the survivors. "They shot at us at point-blank range, without mercy." The raiders tossed their five victims off the moving train, stopped it long enough to daub F.A.L.N. slogans on the coaches, then backtracked a single coach to a rendezvous point. From there, they escaped in waiting cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Counterattack | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...Common Market, but he can try: "The lady from Bexhill still bangs away at me about a mass importation of French courtesans. But I think there must be more to the Common Mar ket than that." "Electrified" by reading in a Sunday women's page that a daub of lipstick artfully placed between the breasts was advised as the latest cosmetic lure, the Earl dashed off an imaginary nightclub scene. HE: "I say, old girl, feeling all right?" SHE: "Absolutely dreamy. Why?" HE: "Well, that rash of yours. Could be measles, you know, or nettle rash. Perhaps that lobster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Plastered Peer | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...clocks moving again and causes Ninian's downfall is a hopelessly immature, nearly illiterate 18-year-old whom he hires as his secretary. Unlike Lolita's Humbert Humbert, Ninian manages to convince himself that he is interested in the girl's mind: peering at a "modern" daub through myopic eyes, she had once by wildest mischance correctly identified a Dufy. In his passion for the girl, Ninian abandons his London art gallery, gets himself thrown into prison and eventually flees with his beloved to Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She Who Gets Slapped | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

Decisions were: Greitzer lost 3-0, Hal Pouser (130 pound class) lost 8-0, George Daub (137 pound class) won 4-0, Steven Astor (157 pound class) lost 5-2, Schnitz won 8-5, and Red Grant (unlimited class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapplers Beat Dartmouth, 19-9 | 1/17/1961 | See Source »

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