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Word: palming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area where a greased palm overrules a handshake, such treachery is normal . . . H. B. SHIELDS Frankfurt, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...think that we the people are entitled to know from the Republican Party before the election just who will run the Government-and where the capital will be situated-Maryland, Georgia, Palm Springs, Denver, Gettysburg, Washington, D.C., or the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Running Debate | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...reply in the same genial mood, John McLatchie waited for his Florida vacation, composed a letter while listening to the surf at Palm Beach. Then he sent it to Capps with a picture (see cut) to prove that he is not "synthetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...knows how to make a sale"). In Texas airmen struggled through an obstacle course on which the final assignment, an exercise in crash rescue, was to lift a heavy stone from a burning cockpit. In Labrador airmen fed the dog teams used for rescue work. And off West Palm Beach, Fla. an Air Force crash boat pulled a pilot from the drink. When his engine flamed out, he had radioed: "I'm going to deadstick her down." Then, after a moment of mature consideration, he changed his mind, declared, "No, I ain't," and bailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Air Force: The Nation's Youngest Service Has Entered the Supersonic age | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...seemed lifeless compared to the efforts of a few deaf children in Baltimore to comprehend the rhythms of music through their fingertips. Sometimes, the nation does not look quite the way the TVmen think it should. For a 30-second shot in Weekiwachee, WWW moved in and planted 26 palm trees to make Florida more readily identifiable as Florida. When the program people wanted to show a ballad-singing miner going about his work, they flew the man 200 miles to a completely different mine because it was more convenient to TV cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Birth of a Baby | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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