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Word: onan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bench Mark. In Istanbul, Judge Tarik Onan disqualified himself from hearing the case of Pickpocket Hikmet Kaya because it was the judge's pocket that Kaya had picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...Time was," said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sherman ("Shay") Minton last week, "when they waited onan elderly Justice and told him he wasn't doing his work right. I don't want that to happen to me." So saying, Justice Minton, 65, tendered his resignation from the court, effective Oct, 15, for reasons of ill health, thereby terminating a career of 15 unremarkable years on federal benches and eight remarkable years in the brawling, bruising New Deal politics of his home state of Indiana and the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: An Echo Fades | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...THRILL to a New Kind of Love-BIGGER than Oh No, Onan . . . BOLDER than Too Far, Mrs. Potiphar . . . BETTER than I was a Sodomite for the FBI. Next week at your neighborhood theater-Mr. Lot Goes to Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Lot Goes to Town | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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