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Word: sam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proclamations that clamored for class revolt. By the time he was 27, Papa Skriabin's boy had been jailed six times, exiled twice. His name was so well known to the Okhrana, the Czarist secret police, that he changed it to Akim Prostota, which means roughly "Simple Sam." But the comrades called, him Molotov-a derivative of molot, a hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...brother, Sam Carp, is a wealthy businessman in Bridgeport, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Battles Promised. Richards' outfield is strong-armed and fast, the equal, defensively, of any outfield in baseball. It has fleet-footed Jim Rivera in center, Orestes ("Minnie") Minoso, league base-stealing champ (22) in left, Sam Mele (.259 and 69 runs batted in) in right. Catcher Sherm

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Chicago Idea | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Al Capp, Author Charles G. (The Next Million Years) Darwin, Eleanor Roosevelt. The guests will appear without fee, which is exactly what Berns has to spend on the show. On past programs, he has preserved the pop of bubble gum, statements from Grandma Moses and Sam Goldwyn, a conversation between London and Manhattan cabbies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Man with a Shoestring | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...moviemakers who were shouted out of Silver City, N. Mex. this month for filming the semi-documentary Salt of the Earth) filed suit for a whopping $51,750,000 damages from 17 film companies, two producer associations, 20 top-ranking cinema executives (L. B. Mayer, Howard Hughes, Dore Schary, Sam Goldwyn, et al.), nine Congressmen (including the committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal to answer the committee's questions about their political beliefs and affiliations) has made them jobless pariahs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Name Droppers | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

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