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Word: alling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suggested one Bolivian, recalling that Cristina had once been voted the world's best-dressed woman: "Why not have all the well-dressed Congressmen vote for Cristina, and the shabby ones vote for Antenor?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Wives' Tale | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week an Indian boy walked into the Victoria Times office, left a scrawled-over sheet of brown wrapping paper, then scurried away. Said his unsigned note: "On Congo River-the witch doctors' law -all small boats have rope on keels-for his men to hold on to when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Word from the Wise | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

"I get awfully embarrassed about my legs," Betty Grable confided in Hollywood as her studio mailed to a fan the 1,500,000th copy of the famous Grable-in-a-bathing-suit photo. "People all want to know how I manage to keep them the way they are. I don...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Less than a month after his re-election to one of the country's toughest jobs-mayor of New York-hard-working, onetime city cop William O'Dwyer, 59, was ordered by his doctors to Bellevue Hospital with "almost complete nervous and physical exhaustion." One indication that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Notre Dame went to Texas last week expecting to wind up a perfect season in a blaze of touchdowns. Instead, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, it was all but charged off its All-America feet by a fiery, accurate Southern Methodist team, minus its injured star Doak Walker but brilliantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Team We've Met | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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