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Word: makin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year after Pearl Harbor Day, Pride got his first seagoing command: the carrier Belleau Wood, which joined with the Wasp, Enterprise, Saratoga and Essex as the first big carrier strike force. Some of the names entered on the Belleau Wood's log: Tarawa, Wake Island, Makin, Kwajalein, Truk, Saipan, Tinian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: PRIDE OF THE SEVENTH FLEET | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...They're all doin' it for the money. I'm gonna be eighty-three years old next Friday and I got connections with the government, and they're all in it for the money. That one with the glasses, see 'im, scratchin' himself, he's makin' a lot of money. Notice the way he talks so slow...

Author: By Harry K. Schwartz, | Title: The Bloodshot Eye | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

From the shores of Makin and Eniwetok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...Harry Truman. "I didn't know whether he smoked, dipped or chewed," the witness volunteered (the President does not use tobacco in any form). But the gift won him a presidential thank-you note which began informally, "Dear Lamar," and he admitted that "I thought I was makin' some time." That was less than three weeks before the roof fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Mess (Continued) | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...Makin' money and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Bare Bones | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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