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Word: gores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skulduggery & Gore. Besides reassuring foreigners. Larrazabal's speech sparked a warm reaction among Venezuelan businessmen. Every chamber of commerce in the country promptly pledged support. The Roman Catholic Church celebrated a special Requiem Mass for the more than 300 killed in the fighting. As Larrazabal capped his first week by announcing that elections for a constituent assembly will be held before the year is up, presidential elections six months later, investigators began rooting through the ruins of Pérez Jiménez' tumbled empire. Newspapers filled columns with gruesome stories of the dictator's sadistic security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: First Week of Freedom | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

President Pusey installed Owen, a professor of History, in a Gore Hall courtyard ceremony last night. He is Winthrop's second master. Ronald M. Ferry '42, who retired last year, had been master since the House was founded 25 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Owen Installed As Master of Winthrop In Gore Courtyard | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

...kind of reputation in the past two years. With 109 murders last year, Houston (1956 pop. 760,000) had the fourth highest total of criminal homicides of any U.S. city; in 1957, with 93 murders to date, pistol-packing Houston is expected to set a new high score for gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Arms & the Newsman | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...stage an all-nude show at nearby Rock-port's Bearskin Neck, began peppering the local newspaper with impassioned protests ("As an artist I love what God created, and I never want to see pants on plants"). At week's end hard-pressed Festival Chairman Ken Gore announced that the ban was only against "questionable nudes," and none of that category had shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Place in the Sun | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...death by no visible flame) and is now desperately afraid for his soul. The fate of this jungle Dr. Faustus is sealed in what the press calls "the great Clausen scandal." Kenya-raised Novelist Huxley (Red Strangers, The Walled City) has written a literate thriller that is short on gore (despite the unlimited possibilities) and long on insight. It is also a drama of the scientific, humanitarian mind led, in its pursuit of ultimate truth, to its blackest dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faustus in the Jungle | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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