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Word: okla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...county jail at Lawton, Okla., a man charged with embezzlement passed the time by hacking away his wooden leg with a razor. To questioners, he retorted shortly: "It's mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...night of Nov.11, 1932, ex-Convict Roy Frank Godbey and four pals pulled off a robbery in Ringling, Okla., and bungled it. They got only $9. A few days later Hoodlum Godbey was captured. Prosecutor Earl Pruet, a vigorous and sarcastic lawyer, pointed out to the court that Godbey was a fifth offender, and demanded a stiff sentence for him. Godbey got 35 years, and swore to Pruet: "I'll kill you if it's the last thing I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On Good Behavior | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

William E. McCoy of Dunster House and Tulsa, Okla.: Dunster House Committee, 1945-1949; Chairman, House Affairs Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '49 Class Committee Candidates | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Oklahoma City, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...thoughts that the pamphlet did provoke were often violent and mostly anti-Newman. The Tribune of Tulsa, Okla., took advantage of the occasion to slam Harvard and Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Samuel Eliot Morison in an editorial entitled "Harvard's Fuzzy-Minded Teachers...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: National Squawk Meets Lecturer's Statement | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

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