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Word: tam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Motive for the crime: revenge. Tamburlani blew up Gualtierotti because the heel-clicking captain had seduced Tam-burlani's fiancee, then cast her off. The girl killed herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Exploding Boots | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...first European infantry outfits to join the United Nations' South Korean fighting forces went ashore at Pusan last week. They were the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 1st Battalion of the Middlesex (London) Regiment, both British army regulars. The Argylls wore tam o'shanters, bush tunics, jungle-green shorts. Only the regimental pipers wore the traditional kilt, which in World War I earned for the Scots the nickname "Ladies from Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ladies from Hell | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...days, .the Aga Khan had been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How to Become Extinct | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Tam O'Shanter's "World Championship" round this week, Locke picked up another: $1,250 12th-place money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bobby Is Back | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Europe this year, including the British Open (TIME, July 17). He did not hurry over to the U.S. as soon as the P.G.A. lifted the ban; he waited for the biggest money tournament in the U.S., the ten-day merry-go-round at Promoter George May's Tam O'Shanter course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bobby Is Back | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

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