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Word: elam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appointed Florida's moderately conservative former (1929-33) Governor Doyle Elam Carlton, 70, to the new Civil Rights Commission to fill the vacancy left by retired Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed (TIME, Dec. 16). Says Democrat Carlton, who keeps his sentiments on segregation largely to himself: "I will be sitting, in effect, as a judge and jury, and I want to pass honestly and fairly on every matter." Justice Reed's commission chairmanship went to Vice Chairman John A. Hannah, 55, president of Michigan State University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Backward Step | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...southern desert, was an uninhabited wilderness when Abraham (a middle Bronze Age man) came to Beersheeba about 1500 B.C. One short reference puzzled them. The book of Genesis (14:6) refers to Horites (cave dwellers) who lived "by the wilderness" and were smitten by Chedorlaomer, King of Elam. But until the fall of Perrot's man, no trace of the Horites had been found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...Vienna to receive the captive airmen for whom the U.S., a few hours before in Budapest, had paid a ransom of $120,000 (plus a C-47 aircraft still held by the Reds). The four flyers-Captain Dave Henderson, Captain John Swift, Tech. Sergeant Jess Duff and Sergeant Jim Elam-did not relax until they were well on the way to Vienna in the ambassador's Cadillac. When they heard over the car's radio an Armed Forces Radio broadcast of their release, followed by stateside basketball scores, they repeated again & again:"Thank God, we are Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Welcome to Freedom! | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...able to get to the pistol that he knows is lying behind the horse trough? Can he smuggle a note to the unsuspecting drivers of a stagecoach that stops briefly for a meal and a change of horses? Will Hostage Hayward lose her virtue to the leering villain (Jack Elam) who keeps a lecher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 19, 1951 | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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