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Word: amber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spotlight on Soviet power, and to divert unrest by playing up nationalism. Last week Ana Pauker was quietly dropped from the roster of secretaries of the Rumanian Communist Party and the Politburo. Along with her went Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu, both Moscow-trained Communists. Into the amber spot at stage center the Communists pushed Gheorghiu-Dej, the man left in prison back in 1941. He became Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Raining in Moscow | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Through the growing darkness of the little panel wherein she holds court, Mona Lisa keeps smiling silently on mankind. In illuminating one by one her amber facets, the critics have only succeeded in making her more dazzlingly mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mystery | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...guillotine and sailed, still unjaded, for the U.S. After a sale of 300,000 copies in France, Novelist Cecil Saint-Laurent's account of all this has now been published in the U.S. It may bring out customers who haven't read a book since Forever Amber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Caroline | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

Beyond the waiting room is the treatment room. Syringes filled with an amber fluid lie on a counter. Along one wall are chairs for four patients, and behind them are tanks of compressed air. The treatment: the patient sits in a chair and an attendant fits respirator tubes in his nostrils. After a flick of a valve, the patient inhales a mixture of air and Dr. Lincoln's bacteriophage* in one of its two varieties, Alpha or Beta. Patients who cannot walk indoors for treatment can get curb service in their cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Whiff of Phage | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...first test is the visual test. Holding the tulip-shaped glass up to the 'light, each member carefully guages the color of the wine and tries to describe it. The most common colors are ruby, garnet, topaz, amber, or green-gold. The wine is also examined for sedimentation and described as either cloudy or clear. The viscosity is examined to determine whether the wine is syrupy, oily, or watery...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Tastevins Seek 'Subtle Nuances' | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

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