Word: pined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...object most strongly to the wording, "in a rickety office in Fleet Street," in your Dec. 10 article on Burke's Landed Gentry. I also wish to make it absolutely clear that I never authorized the word "bribery," e.g., "Editor L. G. Pine has always been besieged by applicants who by cajolery, trickery or even bribery attempt to crash the book." I wish to make it clear that no attempt at bribery has ever been made...
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...TIME apologizes to all gentry concerned for using the term "bribery." As for Editor Pine's office, which is in a 50-year-old building, he thinks a happier description would be "modern...
...aside his comic book, settled back more comfortably in his deck chair, and surveyed his pleasant surroundings. Florida sunshine warmed his skinny (5 ft. 3 in., 101 Ibs.) frame; the flowers of Tropical Park-hibiscus, cro-tons, ixora-bloomed in profusion around the track; banks of clipped Australian pine lined the clubhouse drive. This, he decided, was the life-a far cry from his boyhood years on the farm in Kansas. Last week, just two months after he lost his apprentice allowance (a five-pound weight concession), Charlie Burr entered an exclusive fraternity: he became the seventh American jockey...
Pearl Harbor Day, 1951, finds Japan a rising sun once more, and the snow on the manly pine melting fast. The most dynamic, aggressive and industrialized people in Asia are again preparing themselves for the responsibilities and delights of sovereignty. Already the scene is changing. Trim, alert members of the National Police Reserve (nucleus of the army Japan must inevitably raise to defend herself) train with U.S. carbines, mortars, bazookas and light machine guns. The old zaibatsu (financial cliques) are reviving under new names. Recently a dozen offspring of the old Mitsubishi Commercial Co. combined into four large firms...