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Word: sites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stuckey's Still, a bedraggled Negro home site three miles from Groveland, the band poured shots into one house (someone thought it belonged to the father of one of the rape suspects) and started after more. Sheriff's men and highway police stopped them with tear-gas grenades. A few miles away, whites tossing kerosene-filled bottles burned three Negro homes to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Murmur in the Streets | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Jerusalem's Mount Zion, just outside the Old City, stands the towering white stone Church of the Dormition of Mary. Traditionally the place where the Blessed Virgin died, the site has long been one of the holy places of Christendom. In the Arab-Israeli fighting it has also been a prime military objective, last occupied by Israeli troops as a strategic outlook post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battered Shrines | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...judgment the Lustron type of home cannot be satisfactorily marketed until such time as it can be sold for a maximum sum of $6,500 including the building site, and to continue to waste the taxpayers' money on such a project is absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Four minutes after the report, plane 2023 plowed into Cambirela Peak in the foothills of the Serra da Boa Vista. It took rescue parties 27 hours to reach the isolated site of the crash. All 28 aboard were dead. It was the worst air disaster in Brazilian history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Peak Disaster | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Died. Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 64, eldest brother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; after long illness; in Glamis Castle (legendary site of Shakespeare's Macbeth'), Angus, Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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