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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ To ensure the secresy of such ceremonies, the Poro had another mask, the Gblo ze ge (see cut, right) The man wearing the Gblo ze ge mask had the task of killing any boy caught spying into the mysteries. Such a peeping Poro was first made insensible with poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

One night he was sent to investigate a call for help in a bleak and ancient Brooklyn house. He arrived just as a woman ran out. Her half-crazed husband, with a pistol, had broken through a bedroom window, bent on killing her. The house was pitch-dark. O'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Big Bonanza | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Toughest obstacle to Núñez' success: Cuba's sugar prosperity. Observers in Havana thought he had a fair chance if he could keep up his killing pace.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Another Doctor? | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

"An atom bomb war against Russia," figured James Aloysius Farley, "would result in the killing of 97 innocent people out of every 100. Since only 3% of the Russians are Communists . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Said an Eversharp bigwig: "Dealers are killing us, screaming and tearing us apart for more ball-point pens." That was just eleven months ago. Last week it looked as if Eversharp had gotten another kind of tearing-apart. Board Chairman Martin L. Straus reported that his company (which had had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Not So Sharp | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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