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Word: macleans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hastily abandoned car, a vaguely phrased intention to visit a friend, a reassuring but phony telegram from out of the void-these were the nebulous clues left behind by British Diplomat Donald MacLean and his Foreign Office colleague, Guy Burgess, when they disappeared off the face of the free world more than two years ago. Last week, leaving behind an almost identical set of clues, still more MacLeans disappeared: Donald's attractive, Chicago-born wife Melinda and the three MacLean children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Little Lost Lambs | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...British sent Cloak & Dagger Agent Fitzroy Maclean (later chief of a mission to Tito, now a Conservative M.P.) to capture Zahedi. Maclean kidnaped him right under the nose of his own guard and shipped him off to Palestine for the rest of the war as a prisoner. In Zahedi's bedroom at the time of his arrest, Maclean itemized the following: a collection of German automatic weapons; some opium; a large supply of silk underwear; letters from German parachutist-agents operating in the hills; an illustrated register of the city's prostitutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: General Zahedi: After Mossadegh, A Tough Soldier | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...Bruins cut down the Crimson's 11-0 lead, with Angus Maclean pinning Larry Wilde at 147. The varsity's Hugh Chandler pinned Bruin 157 pounder Ted Kerriter to end Harvard scoring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Tie Brown 16-16, At Providence | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...press was appalled. Twenty months after Diplomats Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess had disappeared with knowledge valuable to the Communists, the Foreign Office was still all too easygoing about the serious business of securing itself against subversion and espionage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Insecure Security | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...True, the Foreign Office [now] states that steps have been taken to put matters right," exploded the Express. "But is not this precisely what the Foreign Office said after MacLean and Burgess disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Insecure Security | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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