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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retirement Benefit. In London, a 45-year-old man arrested for panhandling pleaded to the police: "I am too old to work; I am over 40."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Hands characteristically clasped behind his back, tall, 28-year-old King Baudouin, slim and erect in a plain military uniform, walked to the Speaker's rostrum, bowed to the left and the right, told the joint session of Congress: "I am here to register the solidarity between the people of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: /.eve de KoningI | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Last week Galveston went to the polls, cast its vote in favor of the bad old days. In again as mayor, with a 651-vote plurality: beefy, convivial Herbie Cartwright, 44, who did nothing to contradict the quietly spread word that vice might be revived again. Clough, 68, who ran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: V for Vice | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

ENI's assets total some $2 billion, and receipts run to $500 million annually, but exactly what it spends and earns is a mystery even to the government owners; its balance sheet is, by Mattei custom, uninformative. With it he can buy political influence-he is a lavish contributor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Still on Top | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

"I am a man of God," said the tall, black-clad man as he smiled shyly at his audience. "I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation." The Prior of his Dominican monastery would probably express the vocation differently, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Beat Friar | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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