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Word: second (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...know where to start on this. These last three weeks have been pretty rough. We're getting help here now. That's something we sure didn't have when we started. What makes it so difficult here is -[the captain halted for a second, then resumed]-that you, can't tell the damn North Koreans from the South Koreans. That caused a lot of slaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Don't Worry | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...Princess Irine Ghica, complained that the $23,200 in alimony which he pays each year to first wife Lili Damita is just too much for him: "I may have to print my own money soon unless the amount is reduced." Another outstanding Flynn liability: $6,000 a year to second wife Nora Eddington (now married to Singer Dick Haymes) for the support of their two children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearth & Home | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Ruth Marx wanted $15,000 from ex-husband Groucho because, she told the court, the man with the grease mustache had tricked her into signing an agreement terminating her alimony in case he should divorce second wife Kay, which he did last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearth & Home | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...chariots, each drawn by two snorting, straining steeds. Whipping them on were charioteers dressed in loose, flowing robes. Everything was plausibly Old Roman save for one garish, modern note: on the side of each chariot was a sign advertising one of Rome's leading newspapers. It was the second annual chariot race sponsored by Rome's press club, for the love of history, sport and cheap advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Freedom Road | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...checked Vieira's medical and service records. They gave a somewhat different version of Albert Vieira's story. He had been in Korea with the military mission, but before the fighting began he had been sent back to Japan. There, he had shattered his ankle sliding into second base in a baseball game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stolen Base | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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