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Word: tubfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clean Getaway. In Phoenix, after William Pilling told police that he got off fairly easily when a burglar stole only $6 and a Stetson hat, he discovered that the thief had also taken a bath, left a ring around the tub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...truth were to be told today, Harvard would probably finish a poor fourth behind Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale in the aggressiveness and enthusiasm of its schoolboy recruiting program. For one thing, Harvard alumni have long been more loyal with their dollars than with the amount of noise put into tub-thumping and attracting of prospective students...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet and Bayley F. Mason, S | Title: Intense Ivy Rivalry for 'Elite' of Applicants Puts Harvard Eyes on Nation-wide Promotion | 6/21/1951 | See Source »

...told that I was charged with sabotage, espionage, conspiracy, and the smuggling of Hungarians out of the country. Whenever I seemed to approach exhaustion, I was given coffee and cigarettes. They obviously contained strong stimulants . . . I was slugged over the ear once and dumped naked into a tub of ice water. I began to have hallucinations. The picture of my wife kept flashing before me. At the 70th hour I fell from my chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY: That Knock upon the Door | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...peyote hassle" has been described by a paleface intruder. Navajos of all ages and both sexes sat around a fire with a crude sand-painting of the moon beside it. While the "peyote priest" fussed with the sand-painting, a tin tub full of water was boiling. Peyote buttons were dumped into it. After they had softened, they were fished out and passed around to be chewed. The liquid was doled out in cups. After that, said the observer, it was "every man for himself." Men hopped up with peyote, he reported, "are likely to grab the closest female, whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Button, Button . . . | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...Democrats' greatest assets, cried Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan in the prize tub-thumping speech of the meeting, were four particularly awful Republicans. He named Robert Taft, Congressman Joe Martin, Washington's Senator Harry Cain and Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy ("whose name will live . . . in monstrous infamy . . . Lynch . . . Boycott . . . Quisling and McCarthyism!"). Oklahoma's flamboyant Robert S. Kerr branded the G.O.P. a war party: "They are feeling sicker every day . . . Mac-Arthuritis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Inscrutable, Necessary Harry | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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