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Word: handed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brownie was a pal of the sheriff. The papers, on the other hand, were after him hot & heavy. So were a lot of the citizenry. In fact a bipartisan committee headed by Admiral Thomas L. Gatch, the retired Pacific war hero, was trying to kick the sheriff, diamond-studded badge and all, out of office by way of a recall election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: The Great Misunderstanding | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...week later he entered the hall of the Supreme Soviet (parliament) at Stalin's right hand. He was next-and last-seen on May Day, when the Soviet mighty assembled atop Lenin's tomb. Early in July, Molotov was listed as a signer of the euphuistic vale to the departed Georgi Dimitrov. But he was there only in the printed list; his cannonball head was nowhere visible in the official photos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Where is Molotov? | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...motorcars, bank loans and worthy causes. She can sell diesel engines, grapefruit and trips to foreign lands. She can sell everything from diapers to cemetery plots, aspirin to Zonite. She is a billion-dollar baby with a billion-dollar smile and a billion-dollar salesbook in her billion-dollar hand. She is the new goddess of plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...raced on (without stopping for lunch) to another sitting with Photographer Henry Gravneek. She retouched her make-up in the taxi. Says she: "It makes for the most interesting variations depending on which way the driver takes the bumps." As she entered the studio, Designer Taylor was on hand to introduce Lisa to the black cocktail dress she was to model. While the designer pulled and pinned the dress into place, she patted Lisa Fonssagrives' modest bosom and said: "Darling, you'll simply have to fill that out. You know what I want-the Maxime look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...both. Horst, one of the first photographers for whom she posed, recalls that she trembled with fear during her early sittings, but soon lost her stage fright, and became a top Paris, model. (She once posed in an evening gown while hanging on to the Eiffel Tower with one hand and one foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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