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Word: friend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party given by his wife, anointed himself with grease and took to the choppy waters off France's Cap Gris Nez. He struck out with a powerful breast stroke, stopping now & then to tread water and consume 20 fortifying pints of soup and coffee doled out by a friend in a fishing boat. En route, carrier pigeons released by the escort winged their way back to France to keep Mme. du Moulin posted. Just under 22 hours after starting, Fernand scraped his nose on the pebbles of a Dover beach and hauled himself ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Fernand the Swimmer | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Shoes & Soap & Communists. Giuliano has been careful to build up a reputation as the friend of the common man. One of his earliest victims was Salvatore Abate, postmaster of Montelepre, Giuliano's native village. The peasants complained that Abate stole money orders which relatives in America sent.them. One day, Giuliano strode into the post office and coolly bumped off Postmaster Abate, oppressor of the poor. The peasants complained about the prices Giuseppe Terranova charged for flour, shoes and soap, and the interest he charged on loans. Giuliano decided to enforce price control; he led Terranova into Montelepre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Beautiful Lightning | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...still dallying with his old friend Paz Estenssoro, he was carefully concealing it. Having previously packed the M.N.R. leader off to Uruguay, he closed the Bolivian border, ordered his police chief to keep a sharp eye on other Bolivians still in the country, promised to arrest any rebels chased across the border into Argentine territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: War in the Andes | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Cannes, while his great & good friend, Hollywood's Merle Oberon, 38, watched his private plane take off for Venice, wealthy Italian Count Giorgio Cini, 30, was killed in a crash when he flew low to buzz the airstrip. Cinemactress Oberon cried: "My life is finished. There's no point in going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...through its collective white spade beard about a brand-new horror. At year's end Delacroix' place would be up for sale, and rumor had it that a nightclub was dickering for the property. The Société felt that Delacroix, who had been a close friend of Chopin, would conceivably have found le jazz hot even weirder than the art of his modernist descendents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: It's a Cruel World | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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