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Word: gimlet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WHAT WE ARE SURE MUST BE THREE AND HALF KILOS DYNAMITE." Frank Kirton, 43, beamed as he read it; his wife had just given birth to a son, weight 3½ kilograms. Somehow, Argentina's ever-alert federal police got hold of a copy of the cable; their gimlet eyes lingered long over the word "dynamite." Kirton, after all, was a foreigner- a Brazilian-born Briton. And he owned a ranch in Gualeguaychú in Entre Rios Province, just across the river from Uruguay-mighty handy for smuggling dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Dynamite & Red Paint | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...sank his and Hogan missed. In grim self-reproach, Hogan stayed on the green and practiced the putt again & again -never once making it. That shook the little man whose gimlet glance used to be enough to make rivals break out in hot & cold sweats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sam & the Little Man | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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