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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In reading your interesting article, I came across your picture captioned "Alfa Helicopter Pilot on Pursuit Exercise." This picture appears to have been taken through the nose station of a P2V-7F Neptune patrol plane. Having flown the latter plane, I am positive your picture was taken through what we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1958 | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Am I the only American taxpayer getting weary of digging deep to pay for foreign aid to countries whose feeble efforts to collect income taxes from their own citizens reminds one of a Keystone Cops comedy [Sept. 1]? It's a shame that Gina Lollobrigida isn't as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1958 | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

But June's last day saw severance of the last ties with the formal academic year as another record crowd arrived--the largest number ever to register in Summer School, nearly 3500. From all 48 states they came, and Alaska too, reported the Summer News. An indignant wife from Grays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Session: College Funland | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Later, Capitalist Eaton gave his impression of the Communist leader: "He is a man who is not to be pushed around. You get the idea when you're with him that he's the boss. I have spent most of my life persuading myself that I can read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: Capitalist & Commissar | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

¶ Some writers become both fascinated and horror-struck by words and letters. The Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega wrote five successive novels, omitting the letter a from the first, e from the second, i from the third, o from the fourth, u from the fifth. Franz Kafka was hopelessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Game | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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