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Word: parked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...translating, said that shortly before she was to have sailed for home, a doctor named Korzhinsky had approached her in the street and whispered: "You should not go to Russia-they will send you to Siberia." A little later a man named Leo Costello had lured her to a park bench on Riverside Drive and had deftly plunged a hypodermic needle into her arm. Then everything had gone black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Whites? Reds? Call the Feds! | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...York Post Columnist Earl Wilson took off his clothes and attended a nudist convention at Sunshine Park, N.J. "If your wife wears a nightgown at breakfast," he wrote, "don't cuss her. Congratulate her. I looked rather thoroughly at these nude women and believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...plump gentleman in a black Homburg strode through the afternoon idlers in St. James's Park to the lake. Two wires were taped inconspicuously to the package in his arms; it had a harsh, germicidal smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gentle Prodding | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...tried to tell her students about life in the democracies. But her Communist pupils just laughed. "They told me I probably came from a well-to-do family and knew nothing of people's problems." They wouldn't believe her description of London's Hyde Park: "They just couldn't imagine a place where one man talked of vegetarianism, while another argued the Communist line, and a policeman stood placidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Every Little Bit | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...Fort. On Roanoke Island, N.C., archeologists got closer to the unanswered riddle of the "Lost Colony." Results from excavations started over a year ago have convinced Jean C. ("Pinky") Harrington of the National Park Service that he has uncovered the outlines of Fort Raleigh built by Governor Ralph Lane in 1585. The radical shape of the fort (its bastions are on the sides, rather than the corners) is identical with another fort built by Governor Lane in Puerto Rico while en route to Roanoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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