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Word: neveral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Larissa, a Greek army court sentenced Papouas and Marianthi to death. When her husband was taken out of the long whitewashed room, Marianthi knew she would never see him again. Last week Marianthi sat in a whitewashed cell, remembering, brooding, waiting for death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Goat Fever | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...four days to the police at Lercara Friddi, the humble Sicilian town where he began life, 52 years ago, as Salvatore Lucania, and which he once described as "the deadest dump in the world." The police hinted that Lucky might eventually be permitted on the mainland again, but that never again could he live in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: City Boy | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...heated arguments over-a new brain wave of the Perón government: a "draft law of the intellectual worker." Although the bill was submitted to Education Minister Oscar Ivanissevich last September, few of the debaters knew exactly what they were arguing about; the bill's provisions have never been officially disclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Thought Control | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...word telegram, Jersey City's ex-Boss Frank Hague demanded that the Newark News scrap a series of articles on his life which began this week. "A newspaper such as yours," he fumed, ". . . should never undertake to publish the story of my life without my express consent ... I have served 34 years as the head of the Jersey City government and I dare your newspaper to publish one dishonest act of mine ... or point to one breath of scandal or dishonesty in my administration." The News went right on with the Hague biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Brimming Cup | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Musical Kidneys. Cricket's Homer, a self-described bastard, was born 54 years ago in a Manchester slum. His buxom mother and her two sisters took in laundry until they learned that taking lovers was more rewarding; Neville was one of the rewards. His father, whom he never knew, was first violinist in an orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thin-Spun Runs | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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