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Word: ganges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which left another mark: he learned that he was of the elite, chosen and trained to serve, and to solve problems. With the notion of getting closer to the world, young Dean undertook a romantic, singlehanded journey into the Canadian north woods as cook and handyman with a surveying gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

During a recess, Eccles stopped by Giannini's seat and extended his hand. "Nothing personal intended, you know," he began. A.P. blazed: "You're trying to put the Bank of America out of business and you can't do it. None of your gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Turnabout | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...family rice paddies. Before the war he had tried to join the U.S. Army in the Philippines, but he was too small. The Japanese put him into a forced labor camp, cutting wood for charcoal. One day, 17-year-old José slipped away from a work gang, swam across a river and hid in the bamboo grass, waiting, so "I will be the one in Pozorrubio to find the Americans." Three G.I.s took him to headquarters, and after that, "I walk all around and show where is Jap guns, there, and there and every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Little Joe | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Alaska Railroad's general manager reported that its best-kept stretch of track was maintained by a section gang composed of eight Indian women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Flaxy Martin (Warner) is a chain reaction of horror and violence. A gullible young lawyer (Zachary Scott) is in love with a double-crossing blonde (Virginia Mayo). He imagines that she is going to help him break away from his job as legal chore boy for a gang of hoodlums; instead, she helps frame him for murder. When he manages to escape from the guard who is carting him off to prison, the gang's trigger man catches up with him. This leads to the most gruesome of the movie's assortment of gruesome scenes: Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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