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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The basic weapon for air combat, thinks McNarney, will be the "air-to-air" rocket. It will not have to be aimed very accurately, for it will "home" on its target (probably attracted by radar-wave reflections), chase after it at supersonic speed, and explode by a proximity fuse when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tactics Up in the Air | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

A year ago last week, a gunman jumped from a black sedan in upper Manhattan, pumped three slugs into a boss stevedore named Tom Collentine, and got away. Along New York City's 771 miles of crime-ridden waterfront, the murder sent only a ripple of excitement. Most of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Waterfront Winner | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Last week the Collentine killing was still unsolved, but Johnson's report had run to 50 hard-hitting articles. It had also stirred up three official police investigations and a demand for legislative action to cut down crime on the waterfront. But Johnson and the Sun were still far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Waterfront Winner | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

January 7. "I am the wretchedest of the wretched . . . Nobody will miss [Little Nell] like I shall ... Old wounds bleed afresh when I only think of the way of [killing her]; what the actual doing it will be, God knows."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holy Terror | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Some cattlemen are attacking coyotes too; they claim that coyotes are killing calves at a rate that has become serious. The highly bred modern cow cannot defend her calf as the thin, stringy and wild range cows once did.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Part of the Life | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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