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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only two weeks off, Premier Johannes Strijdom last week carried South Africa's election campaign to his sun-baked home town of Nylstroom in central Transvaal. Awaiting him in Nylstroom's town hall was a capacity crowd of leathery Boer farmers, their bosomy wives, and teen-age Nationalist Youth Bunders waving the flag of the old British-hating Transvaal Republic. From the platform a local politico shouted out an introduction in Afrikaans: "Our candidate is the lion of the North. Tonight you are going to hear him roar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Lion's Roar | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Before he set off for America at the age of 25, Athanassios Konstantinides, a poor Greek farmer in Asia Minor, made a vow to a 15-year-old girl. Never would he be "lured by an American beauty"; when his fortune was made, he would send back to the Turkish village of Yala-zik for his beloved Soultana, and they would be married. Soultana promised to wait for him. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Vow | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...suffer a transoceanic mutilation, as in Rub Me Tender and Rittoru Dahring (Little Darling). Hi rao is solemnly described by one of his fans as "Japan's Elvis Presley but more acceptable to us because his gestures are not so obscene." Hirao's father, who manufactures teen-age cosmetics, prints his son's autograph on every box, and says: "I can't understand his music, but he and I can do business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Rittoru Dahring | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany about 1670. His descendant Franklin Clark Fry-the third in a row to enter the Lutheran ministry-grew up in Rochester, where his father was pastor of the Church of the Reformation. The small Fry showed an early attachment for the church; at the age of four he was heard to warn a friend: "You keep off! This is my father's church." He brushed up his reading technique on the minutes of synodical conferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Lutheran | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...CHRYSLERS with quickie retrimming job will be wheeled out this month to combat sales slump. Windsor, Saratoga and New Yorker models will have splashier trim all around, sweeping chrome strips along side and rear panels, plus mascara-like black paint around headlights for "space age effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 7, 1958 | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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