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Word: lone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through their binoculars, the men on the outpost hill spotted a lone figure, clad in long woolen underwear and brown sweater, lying in an old Korean graveyard in no man's land, only 350 yards from the neutral perimeter of Panmunjom. Cautiously, a squad of marines started toward him. Part way down the hill, a Puerto Rican marine recognized the wounded man as Pfc. Francisco Gonzalez Matias, 21, of San Sebastian, P.R. In Spanish, Gonzalez was asked if he could walk. Clutching a handkerchief in which was wrapped a rosary, the wounded man struggled to his feet, stumbled toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: No. I | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...present, Harvard remains the lone university in the Boston area not in the AFL fold. The AFL drive is the first since its defeat two years ago, and the largest yet made at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUERA Hits AFL Overture To Employees | 4/14/1953 | See Source »

...Lone Hand (Universal-International) suggests a number of disquieting thoughts to horse-opera fans: Is Joel McCrea, a rugged hero .who has been on the side of right in countless westerns, the varmint he seems to be in this particular oater? Is Joel in cahoots with a bunch of badmen who are holding up stagecoaches, robbing express offices and murdering sheriffs? And will Joel, as a result, lose the affections of his worshiping young son (Jimmy Hunt) and adoring wife (Barbara Hale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Such questions are not to be answered lightly, and Lone Hand answers them slowly and laboriously. But Joel is no bad man, pardner. By the fadeout, love, justice, righteousness-as well as Hollywood type-casting-have been vindicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Crimson's best. Player-coach Tom Calhoun's main purpose is to give the squad members who didn't compete in Bermuda during Easter vacation a chance to show their abilities. Nine of the team's starters go to the Business School; Dave McGiffert being the lone Law School representative. Graduate school players have usually been lighter and faster than undergraduate ruggers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ruggers Open '53 Season Against Strong M.I.T. Saturday | 4/9/1953 | See Source »

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