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Word: making (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...died, unmourned by anyone except his landlady. That kindly soul, Frau Amalie Feix, had nursed Kaiser during his illness, had paid hospital and funeral bills. The only valuables he had left behind were three rings. These, Frau Feix thought, rightly belonged to her. She hoped to sell them to make up for her expenses. Frau Feix, however, ran smack up against the Big Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Due Process of Law | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Veteran Cinemactor Clark Gable, victim of many a make-up man and wardrobe mistress, found that he could also dish it out. At a Manhattan party, his impromptu costume designing bested the efforts of Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Violinist Nathan Milstein. Artistically flinging yard goods around bathing-suited models, Gable achieved outstanding success by making Model Charlotte Hanker appear to be having just as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Khan is set for May 27, got full approval and a few thoughtful suggestions from Couturier Jacques Fath. "If I were Rita," he mused, "I would be married in white . . . white crepe with the panels in the skirt and the decolletage like this . . ." He gestured sweepingly downward. "I always make the deep décolletage for Rita," he explained, "because she has a strong bosom. It minimizes it, but one can see very clearly still that it is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Hurley sweated over his docile pupil. He put hobbles on Foster to make him keep his legs closer together, made chalk marks on the floor to show him where to put his feet. "The whole secret of fighting is balance and leverage," Hurley kept saying. Foster kept on looking perplexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Education of a Fighter | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...took quick advantage. Voicemen believe that about 8,000,000 Russians listen regularly to bootlegged news from the West. The reports then flash by grapevine all over the Soviet Union. The Kremlin's answer was jamming. But, says Voiceman Herrick, "jamming is like a chess game." First you make a move. Your opponent makes a move; then you make a countermove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air-Wave Battle | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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