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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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One night when he is sick in the infirmary, he listens at the bathroom wall with Sam Petrie and hears the buxom nurse and the school hero making love in the next room. Sam swears Anthony to secrecy, then blackmails the nurse and steals morphine, which he sells in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Good & Evil | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

Not one to be cowed by people in high places, Evie is outspoken on her column's cast of characters (the British: "They bore me:" the Italians: "Dull"). She does not pretend to cover Washington society completely, since "I really haven't got time for Congress." Good Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: D.C. Diarist | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

The only time Ike seems to sag is when he is bored. When he is interested, his eyes sparkle and his mobile mouth twists to a hundred shadings of response-grins of varying intensity if he approves what he hears, a shallow 5 in disbelief, a wry turndown at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: EISENHOWER: MAN IN MOTION | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Since the undergraduate cannot belong to more than one final club, there is competition every year among the clubs for some candidates. For this reason, the sophomore often hears of how the clubs rank within the system. Any list of the "best" clubs, of course, varies with who is doing...

Author: By Arthur J. Langgutlr, | Title: Eleven Final Clubs: From Pig To Bat | 12/9/1953 | See Source »

Nothing at present prohibits the FBI from listening to rewarding conversations. If the FBI hears that two men are planning to pass secret papers on a certain corner in downtown Boston, it can certainly go there to apprehend the culprits. But if it fails to make the apprehension, current law...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wire Trap | 12/9/1953 | See Source »

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