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Word: stabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little and wound up crouched 'way back in his personal doghouse. I thought it exceedingly funny that somebody had snuck onto his properties . . . and started a liquor still ... I guess there are times when your sense of humor gets so keen that you can fall down and stab yourself on it... My boss man has spent the last 30 years . . . hollering that subtlety is not a commodity to practice in newspapers ... I think I may have to concede finally that he was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: One Touch of Fantasy | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...American man has high standards for everything but marriage. As long as his wife doesn't run off with another man, commit suicide, develop acute dementia praecox, or stab him with the carving knife, he considers his marriage reasonably successful. . . [The American woman] is frustrated, unfulfilled, humiliated, and bored by the routine existence that passes for family life in her native land. If Groggle doesn't change, she can only hope to get worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Price Groggle? | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Before the government got around to it, television men last week made a stab at drawing up a good-conduct code of their own. The 28-page document, presented at a Chicago meeting of the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters, began by congratulating the industry on making "available to the eyes and ears of the American people the finest programs of information, education, culture and entertainment." Then it came out foursquare against "profanity, obscenity, smut and vulgarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Code of Manners & Morals | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Charles's work was rough. He had only a big broadax to work with, and often, when his clients lacked the grace to hold still, his mighty swings resulted in bloody mutilation only. Charles would seize his sword then, and stab with a will until the job was done. In payment he got a fixed fee for each execution and the right to draw on the public markets at will for food for himself, his family and two horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Heirs of the Widow | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...said that, provoked by "improper advances," he had seized the man by the throat and tightened the tie until the man was unconscious. He then tied the ends around his victim's neck and, before leaving, made a stab at the unconscious man's throat with a pair of scissors. He freely admitted his guilt...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Department of Legal Medicine Uses Dandruff, Pieces of Skin and Old Bones to Catch Killers | 10/10/1951 | See Source »

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