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Word: maze (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of experience in the District Attorney's office, would not forget it. And when the House Rules Committee started an investigation of organized crime in Massachusetts, his chance came. First Lawrence R. Goldberg, police reporter for the Boston Post, was tipped off that something would break. Under a maze of headlines, the Post ran this vague story, "A prominent state detective's report is in the possession of one of the state's highest officials charging that one of the Commonwealth's top officials, evidently in collusion with courts of equal importance is involved knee deep in racketeering, graft...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Brass Tacks | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

...Enemy of the People" is a play of subtle intellectual strands and bold characterizations. "It is above all, a vehicle for the fiery ideas of Ibeca, and it is through the often-confused maze of social theory that his personalities emerge and gain strength. The Harvard Theatre Group has succeeded perfectly in fusing characters to their philosophies, and the result is a dynamic production which mounts in intensity to a thrilling climax at the end of the second...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

Organized Chaos. Though not the highest-paid, George Price is probably the funniest cartoonist alive. With a line as lean as Arno's is broad, Price pilots a button-eyed, beak-nosed, slack-jowled crew of slovens through a maze of organized chaos. "I never saw two fighters more evenly matched," says one fight fan to another as two plug-uglies are hauled unconscious from the ring. During a six-day bicycle race, an announcer barks into the publicaddress system: "Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Lembaugh, of 435 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, offer their only daughter, Ethel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful & Weird | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Officer Fitzgerald was not the only man to wander down the wrong tunnel in the steam tunnel maze; his rescuers themselves had at one time fallen behind and temporarily lost their way. Like the layout of University buildings themselves, the tunnels were designed on a cowpath basis...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Circling the Square | 11/14/1951 | See Source »

Allen R. Foley is officially the head of Dartmouth's History Department. Before he took the job of steering men through the maze of news that makes up today's current events, he gave a course on the West dubbed "Cowboys and Indians" by his students...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Silhouette | 10/27/1951 | See Source »

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