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Word: fired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smeared with war paint, Lulua warriors began by burning two Baluba villages to the ground and killing their inhabitants with spears and homemade muzzle-loading rifles. In the suburbs of Luluabourg, naked Lulua women swarmed through the streets screaming to their men to kill, kill, kill. Like a grass fire, murder and mutilation swept over an area of 40 miles until the number of deaths mounted to an estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BELGIAN CONGO: Sounds of the Future | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...quick to be caught and domesticated by the classiest doll, TV's private detective runs second to only one competitor in the race for ratings. So far, in a season riddled with old scandals and new specials, the Cowpoke is still top draw, but the Eye has impressive fire power, and by year's end he may well be top gun. The TV tally sheet already lists 62 shows (network and syndicated) devoted to some variation of Cops & Robbers. Police detectives practice their profession on the networks only a few hours a week; it is the civilian shamus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Private Lives. Hammett had been a Private Eye himself. He knew that "house burglary is probably the poorest-paid trade in the world." He had been mistaken for a Prohibition agent, hired by a woman to fire her housekeeper, was friendly with a man who stole a Ferris wheel. And he had stumbled upon a young woman who did not tell him that she thought his work was interesting. Unlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...Suzy Parker), an actress who is determined to go places, goes astray with a philandering director (Louis Jourdan). When he kicks her out and takes the next girl in, Suzy takes a header off the nearest fire escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...French and Americans, eventually got the British to give him practically the same job he had under the Nazis: allocating the crumbled remains of German steel for peaceful uses. Eventually, Ruhr steelmen who had many a wartime grudge to settle initiated denazification proceedings against Schlieker, forced the British to fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Wily Willy | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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