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Word: holing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left but returned to spy later. Rubino met from three to seven customers a day, walked them around the hospital grounds to the powerhouse and left the buyer holding the dog's leash, while he scuttled inside, mounted the dynamo "like a monkey" and reached into a hole in the ceiling above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Safest Place In Town | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Geneva. At a U.N. Economic and Social Council meeting, Czech Delegate Arnost Tauber objected bitterly to the balloons, called them "further proof of subversive activities by the U.S. Government." Said Crusader Stassen: "We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Winds of Freedom | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...After testing 220 white and Negro babies on such items as crawling, babbling, standing and grabbing, Psychologist A. R. Gilliland of Northwestern University poked another hole into an old superstition. Mean I.Q. of the white babies: 103; of the Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...Hogan, with a blazing final 6-under-par round of 66 for a 72-hole total of 273, the $12,500 top money (golf's biggest prize) in the Tarn O'Shanter Country Club's $50,000 tournament; at Chicago. Tied for eighth place: Lloyd Mangrum, who played his home course under police guard after a threatening telephone call (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

There were compensations. The Metropolitan's Soprano Astrid Varnay sang such a sumptuous Brünnhilde that she made up for her missing helmet. In Siegfried, the dragon Fafner, an immense 30-ft. creation, emerged from a gaping cave in front-center (instead of from a miserable little hole to one side, as at the conventional Met). Fafner was so terrible in his oversize plungings and snortings that, probably for the first time in history, Siegfried seemed really brave to tackle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Twilight of the Gods | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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