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Word: sinistere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Hill is completely under the thumb of General MacDermott, one of the most sinister characters ever to wear a U.S. uniform. In one scene, MacDermott is seen sitting in a booty-bulging castle, listening to stock exchange quotations, while his wife has her portrait painted. Upon hearing that timber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Two Worlds | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Then the Worker's editors discovered that Boysen was of Puerto Rican descent. The issue was plain as a picket's placard: the case had sinister overtones of Jim Crowism and white supremacy. In a furious editorial the Worker slapped down its sportwriters : "We regret that [they] should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Repent, Ye Sinners | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

The last item is perhaps the most sinister. It implies that coach Marchie Schwartz will have 55 men who either are already on the varsity game list or are topnotch freshmen.

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

The redhead in Apartment 1-A was strangled first. Then the redhead in 2-B and the one in 3-C got theirs. All died at the hands of "The Creeper," a sinister, unseen character in last week's Suspense play over CBS television. But after the murder of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Whodunit? | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

While Russian troops were parading through Red Square in Moscow yesterday, their sympathizers halfway around the world had already completed their May Day festivities. Wellosley College girls, in the most flagrant example of eastern college radicalism over displayed, ran their hoop race on the day before the sinister first of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoop Race Dupes Wellesley Intellectuals | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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