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Word: gimlets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...chain-smoker, Liaquat takes an occasional gimlet (gin and lime), likes to repair radios and cigarette lighters, and sometimes beats a hot drum at parties. He also likes to sing the songs of Iqbal, a great Urdu poet, accompanying himself on the harmonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Glory of the Moguls | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Every day at Charlie Binaggio's First District Democratic Club on Truman Road in Kansas City, boon seekers ran a gauntlet of stony-faced hoodlums, sought their favors of the gimlet-eyed man sitting beneath the bare light bulb behind the bare desk. Charlie was a political big-shot in Jackson County, President Truman's home county. He had 30,000 votes in his pocket. He boasted that he controlled 40 state legislators, that he had elected Governor Forrest Smith. But Charlie Binaggio, who looked deceptively like a mild and prosperous chiropodist, made a mistake which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Murder on Truman Road | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...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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