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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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If the story was true, Shida had disappeared in order to escape that cold fury. But was it the truth? Comrades loyal to Shida suggested discreetly that the whole thing was a fabrication designed to discredit him politically. If so, it was unlikely that he was still alive. Either way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Comrade & the Geisha | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

To all but the most casual concertgoers, the Philharmonic has sounded ragged for the past two years, and the impression grew that nobody seemed to care. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, 60, a man of great good will and enormous gifts, tolerated sloppy playing-possibly demoralized because the Philharmonic's board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Manager | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

A Hungarian plastic surgeon, troubled by the fact that many confessors tell their female penitents that face lifting and similar plastic surgery is wrong, appealed to Jesuit Father Virginio Rotondi for a ruling. Rotondi, a priest reputed to enjoy the Pope's special confidence (he divulged the Pope'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beauty, Right & Wrong | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Fire Control. In Petersburg, Va., daily target practice was ordered by Police Chief W. E. Traylor after two detectives, hidden in an often-robbed restaurant, watched two gunmen escape after a battle in which 21 shots were fired, no one hit.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Prodigal. In San Quentin, Calif., worn out and hungry, Jailbreaker Leland Rogers showed up at the state prison's main gate two weeks after his escape, begged to be let back in, was obliged.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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