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Word: snooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bank Director Ralph Assheton, Merchant Malcolm S. McCorquodale and World Court Judge Sir Arnold Duncan McNair. ¶Knighthoods (and the right to be addressed as "Sir") went to the British West Indies' onetime rabble-rousing Labor Leader William Alexander Bustamante, who used to cock a snook at Crown and Empire, to a covey of retired generals and admirals, and to a solid phalanx of businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In The Queen's Name | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...While fishing (for the first time in his life) and trying to hook savage snook in the Florida Everglades, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned too far out of an outboard skiff while trying to make his plug let go of a mangrove root, back-somersaulted overboard. Absent from the scene of the splash: an 18-ft. alligator usually found lolling there. Later, when his guide careened the boat in too tight a 180° turn, all aboard got dipped. Muttered plucky Dick Nixon, snookless, bedraggled and amazed: "I didn't think it could happen twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...David Perkins, English; William L. Phelps, English; Mitchel T. Rabkin, Biochemist Sciences; Chester F. Relyea, Economics Richard R. RePass, English; John Rexine, Classics; Elwood A. Rickle History; Edward J. Rosek, Government Robert A. Russell, Government; Melvin C. Shefftz, History; Charles R. Sheparson, Biology; Julius Silberger, Jr., Biology; John B. Snook '49, History and Literature; Louis Solomon, Mathematics Archibal C. Spencer, English; Henry Steiner, History and Literature; David B. Stewart, Geological Sciences; Richard E. Stockton, English; John M. Teal, Biology; David J. Thomas, History; P. H. Tobias, History; Anthony D. Tormontozzi, Biology; Richard J. Turns, Mathematics; Paul A. Wallace, Jr., History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Chooses 88 Seniors | 6/19/1951 | See Source »

...Lastly 'Snook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: £500 a Day | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Clifford Snook, I know thy claim

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: £500 a Day | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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