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Word: doves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the third quarter, both teams held each other at mid-field. In the final period, Dave McElroy went to the Dunster 20 on a reverse around left end. Three plays later, Riley dove off tackle from the four yard line for his second touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Lowell Win Football Finales | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

David is reserving his own best efforts to exposure of "the greatest Communist lie of all-the lie that Communism seeks peace." This week 150,000 Paix et Liberté posters will go up all over France; on them Picasso's dove, featured in the Communist Stockholm petition, has been painted bright red. Under it are the words: "La colombe qui fait bourn!" (The dove that goes boom!). From the red bird's mouth dangles the olive branch, but its feet are the treads of a tank and its wings sprout guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Dove That Goes Boom | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Turinese Tailor Antonio Santomauro, who made the elaborately embroidered Mantle of Peace worn by Pope Pius XII for special ceremonies, was busily stitching away at two more peace jackets. One, of Tibet wool, double-breasted with four gold buttons and an embroidered globe carried by two small doves, will go to Harry Truman. To Joseph Stalin, courtesy of Tailor Santomauro, will go a single-breasted job, buttoned to the throat, with one embroidered dove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Calloused Hand | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...from landfall at San Salvador, the caravels came upon smooth seas, drizzling rains and a whale. Whales had always been seen close to shore for the same good reason boatswain birds had: men had never sailed far enough to see them elsewhere. On Sept. 25, after sandpipers and a dove-supposedly sure harbingers of land-were reported, an island was "sighted" and Columbus knelt down and gave thanks to the Lord. The "island" was a cloud on the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey info Wonder | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

There were no serious injuries on Saturday, only the customary bruises. Bob Stargel was still limping yesterday and Red Wylie is definitely out of the Army game. Hank Rate, first string defensive end, dove for a pass in yesterday's practice, came down on his stomach, and had to leave the field. The extent of his injury if any is not yet known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scrimmage Starts Pre-Army Practice | 10/17/1950 | See Source »

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