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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slow Burn. In Yorii, Japan, Mina Ogawa, 76, took belated revenge on her ex-fiance, Kinjyuro Oba, 83, who broke off their engagement 39 years ago, set fire to his house and destroyed it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

That worthy is involved in a plot that would turn almost any sky to buttermilk. Out in the state of Washington, rich, square-shooting Stanley Weston is engaged to Marigold Wade, a rancher's daughter. But Marigold keeps putting off the wedding so she can continue a flirtation with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Rides On--and On | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Not to Kill. Lark burns a brush fence and frees the mustangs. That should be enough to make bullets fly, but there is a special ethic in this far, far western. In battle, as in love, no one shoots to kill. "You could shoot Blanding," Lark urges Stanley. "Oh, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Rides On--and On | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

As commodore of a squadron including Bonhomme Richard (40 guns), frigates Alliance (36 guns) and Pallas (26 guns), and brig Vengeance (12 guns), Jones was cruising off Yorkshire's Flamborough Head when at 3 o'clock one afternoon he sighted a Baltic merchant fleet, escorted by frigate Serapis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Difficult Hero | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

The Man and the Challenge (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). George Nader playing Glenn Barton, a Government scientist, starts off on a new adventure series.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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