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Word: paw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show, he is mistaken by the crooked mayor (Gene Lockhart) and his henchmen-relatives for Napoleon's feared inspector general traveling incognito. Then, hardly grown into his splendid Techncolored uniform and the hungry affections of the mayor's wife (Elsa Lanchester), Kaye becomes a cat's-paw and fall guy for the scoundrelly medicine-show boss (Walter Slezak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 23, 1950 | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Little Finland has been a burr in a bear's paw. The bear has alternately gone after it with tooth & claw, licked it with honeyed tongue. Before last year's elections, Russia offered the Finns a friendship pact, reduced their reparations debt. The maneuver failed. The Finns trotted off to the polls, returned even fewer Communists to the Diet than they had had before. Last week, on the eve of Finland's presidential election, the bear bared his teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Burr | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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