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Word: stabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international crook who, as a French paper prettily puts it, "collects precious stones, chiefly diamonds." As for Paul, he climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about to collect something more precious than stones, when Eliot relegates him to the compost heap with a single knife-stab. Suddenly, the beautiful old house rings to the tramp of invading flatfeet and the idyl ends with a whimper: "Mother. I want Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Worm in the Apple | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...have given them a stab in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...From Rochester, where he merged the Union & Advertiser with the Times, he went on to combine Utica's Herald-Dispatch and Observer, Elmira's Telegram and Advertiser, Ithaca's News and Journal. He fought Hearst in Rochester (where W.R.H. spent $8,000,000 in a hopeless stab at putting F.E.G. out of business), and was himself driven to the ropes in Brooklyn, where he bought the old Eagle in 1929 and shucked it at a loss of $2,000,000 three years later. He never founded a paper, but he bought with an auditor's sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Chain That Isn't | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...didn't he go? The question can best be answered by the man himself. At Paris, Stevenson could not have spoken for himself without appearing to stab the American delegation in the back. He could not have kept silent without implying tacit assent and wordless blessing to policies he did not conceive and did not believe in. At the present time, Stevenson is a political dead man. While more ambitious Democrats pursue more prudent courses, he may speak his mind on American foreign policy. To have gone to Europe would have compromised this new role as a responsible critic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Odd Man Out | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

BOSTON, Dec. 1--William Tasco, 18, of Cambridge, suffered severe stab wounds last night at a dance in a Huntington Ave. hall...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Local Youth Savagely Knifed During Huntington Ave. Dance | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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