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Word: lairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul and Philippe. Scientific tests eventually showed that Ernstli was Philippe's identical twin and that Paul, switched at birth by mistake, was the son of the woman who had raised Ernstli. Wrote Mrs. Joye in her diary: "I can't weep any more, and my lair would be snow-white if I didn't dye it." She dreaded giving up Paul, but she could not resist claiming Ernstli. After the boys were switched back to their real mothers, Ernstli wept for days, but soon stopped addressing Mrs. Joye as "Madame" and started calling her "Maman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Babies, Scandal & Apples | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...aroused Brown Bear, still smarting from that week's loss to Princeton's weak hockey team, will be fighting for his Pentagonal life tonight when the varsity sextet enters his cigar-shaped Providence lair at 8:30 p.m. The Crimson freshmen meet Brown's '57 sextet in the 7 p.m. preliminary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Faces Brown In League Contest Tonight | 2/10/1954 | See Source »

...best--an exclusive milieu of Oyster Bay, Marlborough Street, Northeast Harbor. Mr. Flood is too much a product of this world to be rewarding to critics intent on the game of pinning the tale on other authors. Except for a brief glimpse of the Tycoon in his Wall Street lair, there is no trace of Fitzgerald's awe in the book's pictures of the twenties. Nor does Mr. Flood have any of Marquand Sr.'s quiet grudge or Marquand Jr.'s compulsion to renounce loudly the world of wealth and position. Mr. Flood's even perspective, whether...

Author: By R.e. Oldenburg, | Title: Love Is A Bridge | 11/7/1953 | See Source »

...Clark signed alone in a tin-roofed movie hall at Munsan, the allied truce base, three hours after the Panmunjom signing, and Kim and Peng presumably signed in their own lair at Pyongyang. Behind Clark, ramrod stiff, jaws clamped tight, sat ROK Major General Choi Duk Shin. Spotting him after the signing, Clark said, "I'm glad you came." "Thank you," said General Choi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TRUCE: At Last | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...removing the National Salvation Army from its lair in the Shan mountains will not be an easy matter. Says General Li Mi: "Rather than evacuate ... we could still turn to smuggling or even become bandits and plunder to stay alive. Look at my people. Now they have full freedom to fight the Reds. Here [in Formosa] they would be leashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Last Ditch Army | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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