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Word: gately (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Linda's mother returned, heard the maid's story and anxiously opened the letter. Clumsily lettered, it read: "Your child has-been kidnaped . . . The amount is $20,000. cash or negotiable bonds. Put same in envelope on top of your Sol y Lomas gate tonight if you can. If not until tomorrow night put a red rag as sign ... If not at all-your kid will die of cold and hunger. New Mexico is an easy place to lose a body. Do not talk about this to police, FBI or friends. Any effort to interfere with our messenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Visit from the Doctor | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...then notified police. The next night 30 policemen and FBI agents, equipped with walkie-talkie radios, were hiding in the vicinity of the Stamms' wooded estate, on the road to Las Vegas, when a figure shuffled past and reached under a rock by the gate. As police pounced, their captive protested: "I'm just a go-between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Visit from the Doctor | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...step was brisk and his back as straight as a ramrod. He passed through two rows of cheering [British] officers, and after turning at the gate to salute them, he acknowledged the salute of the German escort, who by that time had learned to salute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highland Family | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...route will take the Band around Widener, out the gate near Lamont Library, and then down Massachusetts Avenue to Holyoke Street, where it will follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Randall Changes View, Will Allow Ralliers to Follow Longer Route | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

...Houses & Long Hair. La Sung Duk is 59 years old and an elder in Pyongyang's West Gate Presbyterian Church. Elder La met his first Russian in September 1945. The Russian was a cheerful, blond young soldier, and he asked Elder La's help in haggling for an apple with a fruit vendor. Elder La tried to ask the soldier the meaning of the green hatbands worn by some of the Russian officers, but he couldn't seem to make the soldier understand his question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carrots and Radishes | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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