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Word: slash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marrying Kind. In Singapore, charged with attempted suicide, Fong Kum Mok tearfully told the court that he tried to slash his throat after reflecting on his marital problems, explained: his first wife died, his second ran off with thousands of dollars in cash and jewelry, his prospective third broke her promise to wed him, fled with several hundred dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1956 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...today's as the pinewoods around his native Tallahassee are from the palmy patios of the Miami Beach hotels. The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through the yellow winter sunlight at the edge of a slash-pine grove. Or a 15-lb. turkey gobbler hurtling into a charge of No. 6 shot, and then falling through the Spanish moss on the oaks onto the dry palmettos below. Or the catfish, at his grandfather Brandon's farm, that stole his bait, sneaking off to its lair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: A Place in the Sun | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...Johnson, prosperous Negro undertaker in Belzoni, was treated to the arrival of a C.C.-imported rival funeral home, which tried to slash his business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Armageddon to Go | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...School of Education faces an annual budget slash of $63,000 beginning next year when a $300,000 bequest expires in June, Dean Francis Keppel '38 announced yesterday...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Budget Slash Faces School Of Education | 10/6/1955 | See Source »

PLASTIC PRICES will come down as the result of an 18% price slash on Union Carbide & Carbon Corp.'s vinyl resins (used for raincoats, upholstery, garden hose, etc.). With Italian vinyls selling in the U.S. for 32? a lb., Union Carbide was forced to cut its price from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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