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Word: rams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a mad gleam in Rankin's eye a few months ago, few people were disturbed. It looked like Rankin was just going to try to embarrass the Administration by yowping about veterans' rights in his Veterans' Affairs Committee. But the colorful statesman from Mississippi was able to ram his project through the committee--most of the members stalked out of the "hearing" in protest against the chairman's arbitrary tactics--and he was also able to bring it to the House floor on Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rankin's Folly | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

...liveried flunky discreetly roused dapper, white-haired Ramón Serrano Suñer from his siesta. "Two gentlemen to see you, sir, on a most urgent matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Of Fools & Duels | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Married. Cristóbal de Carvajal, Duke of Veragua, 24, lieutenant in the Spanish navy, who, as the only descendant of Christopher Columbus, inherits the title of Admiral of the Indies; and Anunciada Gorosabel y Ramírez de Haro, 22, Madrid socialite; in Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...noon, two pious Jews chosen by the rabbinate blew the shofar (ram's horn). Weizmann repeated the presidential oath with arm outstretched toward the Assembly, which rose on signal and shouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Road to Jerusalem | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Quickly the government rounded up 14 sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Plot That Failed | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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