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Word: supervisor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allegedly had not seen a nurse or other white woman in 18 months, WACs would be locked within their barbed-wire compound at all times except when escorted by armed guards." The New Guinea WACs, as everywhere, did their job-in this case mostly mail censorship. Said their male supervisor: "[They] possess an uncanny knack for picking up hidden security breaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: My Best Soldiers | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...from the outset. Williams tells of a mussy, lolling, almost half-witted young girl married to a much older, hard-up cotton man who has set fire to a rival cotton gin. As he hoped, he gets the order to process his rival's cotton, but the rival supervisor, as hush money, beds the wife. The plot is rowdy Erskine Caldwell with a crueler edge: already, eleven years ago, Williams could make a smoking-car story constitute a criticism of life. Tremendously helpful to 27 Wagons is Maureen Stapleton's brilliantly funny and disturbingly lifelike portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show in Manhattan, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...already married, but they moved in together anyway. Mrs. Theresa Fergerson won a divorce on grounds of cruelty without naming Alma as corespondent, then sued her for alienation of affections* and last year won a $25,000 judgment. "We haven't got $25,000," said Fergerson, a trucking supervisor, who had married Alma by then. But the first Mrs. Fergerson had other means open to exact payment for her lost love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Last Laugh | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Senior Tutor he will be director of the tutorial program of the House, and supervisor of advisor work with students. He will also administer the disciplinary program for House residents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stewart New Adams House Senior Tutor | 4/12/1955 | See Source »

Craig's foes have been vocal about a number of his appointments-both Legion and-non-Legion men. A constant target has been Doxie Moore, 43, a Legionnaire and onetime professional basketball player, coach and supervisor of officials for the National Basketball Association, who is now Craig's loyal, hardhitting administrative assistant. Critics have hung a label on Moore: "Double-Dribble Doxie." As if to accommodate them, Doxie at times double-dribbles. A fortnight ago, without consulting Craig, he sent out a flurry of telegrams, over the governor's name, taking the wrong side on the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Warfare on the Wabash | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

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