Word: 1950s
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...1950s and 1960s Rabin was one of Israel's foremost military leaders, and has been one of the country's strongest proponents of peace during the last 20 years. Rabin served as Israeli Prime Minister from...
Lori's mom Doris echoes what Dole tells women: they should work only if they want to, a 1950s notion that defies the economy of the 1990s. "If I had my choice, both of my daughters would stay home," says Doris. She reared her five children while her husband Ed worked for 27 years at Sears. But she realizes Lori has little choice, so she thought about what matters to her most, and then made a decision about her own life that makes all the difference in Lori...
Perhaps the answer is that while the House of the Future ride was a success at Disneyland, what may be called the "House of the Future project"--the popular belief in the 1950s and onward that through new technology ultimate prosperity would be secured--failed in America. The House of the Future ride at Disneyland sent the message to those who viewed it that a newer, more advanced house would be a happier home as well...
Founded in 1946 at the Hasty Pudding Club, the group celebrated its 50th anniversary last spring. The group performs classic ballads and light jazz from the 1920s to 1950s, according to former member Jordan A. Cooper...
...Pilaggi Brothers, Primo and Secondo (Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci), are simple souls. Italian immigrants, they believe that if they bring the best of their native land's cuisine to America, fortune will inevitably follow. They have, however, picked the wrong time--the 1950s--and the wrong place--the Jersey shore--for culinary proselytizing. Perhaps even the wrong street, for across from their modest establishment stands Pascal's, whose proprietor (Ian Holm) is busy noisily and prosperously ladling red sauce across his customers' tin palates and quietly scheming his rivals' ruin...