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Word: thereness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since there is no known way to identify nuclear explosions of small yield underground, the U.S. cannot know if the Russians have really stopped tests. The Russians have tested several high-energy shots this year, one in excess of Hiroshima size, and the U.S. has only the U.S.S.R.'s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: High Price of Suspension | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

THE CONGRESS The Scrutable Occidental There will always be a whooping crane, Deo volente. And there will probably always be a whooping Congressman. This migratory species is recognized by its raucous cry and by its frequent fumbling, bumbling, freeloading flights to exotic lands, where it lays eggs of oddest shapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Scrutable Occidental | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

It was during the course of questioning butchers that Investigator Kaplan's agents uncovered the extortion ring. Butcher Manny Seligman, for one, explained how it worked. He had been summonsed for short weighing by an inspector from the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and he turned up as ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Cheaters | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Give & Take. Union President Lapidus copped a guilty plea on charges of extortion. Boss Loughran (who ironically had won a reputation for his exposes of rackets in retail businesses) was haled before a county grand jury, fired from his $8,250-a-year job and arrested on charges of extortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Cheaters | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

The killers had left no clues behind. The cord and tape they used to bind and gag their victims were stock items that could have been purchased in any town in the U.S. There were plenty of fingerprints around, but the house of the busy, friendly Clutters had been "like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: in Cold Blood | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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