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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Murphy is only one of a score of men in the Little Cabinet, men the U.S. knows little about, who make it their business to know a lot about the U.S. The big wheels, like Assistant President John Steelman and Secretary Matt Connelly, have their offices in the White House. The little wheels around the Truman mainspring are located just across the street on the second floor of the old State Department Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tick, Tock | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...line of duty, Reporter Jack Pickering of the Detroit Times knows a good many of Detroit's crooks, screwballs, small fry and tipsters. A few moments after he answered his office phone one night last week, he knew he had one of them on the line. The caller, without identifying himself, said: "You did me a favor once. I want to tell you a story. You know the building at Milwaukee and Cass?" Pickering did. "Right," the voice went on. "Dynamite has been planted in the building. It was planted when the Big Guy was in the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Man on the Phone | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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