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Word: paw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln and Mary Todd. His father, John Chanler White, an Episcopal minister of Springfield, Ill. and later a bishop, encouraged Tommy to go to church once weekly, to join the Boy Scouts. Tommy's earliest interest was catching snakes at his family's summer cottage at Lake Paw Paw, Mich, and taking them home in a peach basket. ("We always wondered what happened to that snake that got away in the Pullman," says his sister.) His second interest was foreign nations. His third interest was organizing the neighborhood kids for military drill, in which he was always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Power For Now | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...from there on, not even the cat's-paw should be let out of the bag. There is enough more plot, however, to see Monique comfortably-and the audience fairly apprehensively-through a full evening; enough for the villainy to be double-dyed and the victim never surely dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...spill to the Atomic Energy Commission. The other Kellogg people tried to keep it quiet too-no easy job. The Tracerlab men with their instruments attracted unavoidable attention, and rumors flew thick. Both the Northway and McVey houses proved to be radioactive. So were the hair and one paw of Peggy, the Northways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plague of Iridium 192 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...will, however, be very much in the running for a slot in the varsity's epee team next year. Since Charat is a south-paw, however, it is probable that he could be used to better advantage next season in foil, where a lefty is at a particular advantage...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: '60 Fencers Slight Favorites In Yale Match | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

Twenty-four hours later, arriving in Belgrade on a good-will visit, Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis warmly clasped the proletarian paw of Marshal Tito. The inconsistency was more apparent than real: Greece's alliance with Communist Yugoslavia is designed to protect them both from Russian attack. Reaffirming Greek-Yugoslavian solidarity, Karamanlis admitted that the Balkan Pact which links Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey is currently "sleeping"-and will continue to slumber until Turkey and Greece are able to settle their differences over Cyprus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: A Sort of Solidarity | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

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