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Word: aps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, where Lee gambled with his infantry, Eisenhower has never risked one whit of prestige. Now, of course the AP reported yesterday that the President "at long last, had proved he could get down off his high horse and punch." This referred to a statement earlier in the day when he said he would henceforth distinguish between those Republican candidates he was "for" and those he was "enthusiastically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defeat by Default | 5/23/1957 | See Source »

Except that Eliot appreciated the difficulty of ringing changes in. Instead of edicts, he used the same ap...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: The Case of The Cigar And The Swelling Arm | 9/28/1956 | See Source »

...problem (not peculiar to North Carolina) has been the dearth of highly susceptible teen-agers at polio clinics or in doctors' private offices. Parents eagerly drag the moppets in by the hand, but ap parently leave teen-agers to fend for themselves. Greensboro's Dr. Samuel Ravenel, who sparked the state drive, tried to remedy this with a slogan: "Walk with Salk, so you can rock 'n' roll." Evi dently it took, because teen-agers made up about half the Guilford queues. In Gibsonville Mrs. Thomas Scoggins took in her five-month-old baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Walk with Salk | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

CORNING, IOWA, Jan. 27 (AP) -There's still a Peterson family on the farm that Dale E. Peterson left last month to take his family to California where he thought he might "do better." Dale's younger brother William, 25, his wife and their three boys have rented the. place on which Dale had his "quitting farming" sale, televised on the Murrow-Benson program last night . . . "We had a letter from [Dale] Thursday," said Mrs. Bill Peterson. "Dale has a job in a warehouse in Glendale ... He just sold out because he thought he could do better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: See It Now? | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...prisoners got keys to their cells and were permitted to move about at will. Unexplained guests came and went. Rude prison fare was augmented with Epicurean delicacies. Many prison inmates began to take their breakfast in bed, and often, at the dinner hour, they wandered out for an apéritif in the village cafés. A crude guard who protested such goings-on was sternly reprimanded by Warden Billa. "These men," said the warden, "are intellectuals. This is a special case." To Billa himself, the prisoners returned kindness for kindness. One night, when two prisoners found Billa lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Happy Jail | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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