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Word: bags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of U.N. cease-fire talks. If Red China's Chou En-lai had accepted the U.N. invitation under the New Zealand resolution, he would have won wide international backing for a seat in the U.N. and, perhaps, a neutralized Formosa, a sitting duck for Chou to bag when he pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Bell | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...Parting Guests. In Wichita, Kans., after being robbed by two bandits ol $1,500 and forced to carry a stolen bag of' groceries to their car, Grocer Dale Steen was forced at gunpoint to borrow a customer's car, push the getaway car a quarter of a mile to get it started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 31, 1955 | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...also had a recipe: "To comfort ye brains, and for ye palsie, and for ye giddiness of the head. Take a handful of rose flowers, cloves, mace, nutmeg, all in a powder, quilt in a little bag and sprinkle with rose water, mixed with malmsey wine, and lay it in ye nod of ye neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Resolutions for Roses | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...19th century's hot war between science and religion. It has ended in an uncomfortable ceasefire, and in the creation of a line that would separate knowledge from all other human activities. Religion has too often agreed to accept the role of a nonscientific spiritual grab bag . . . while science has promised to give up its control over feeling and will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God v. Grab Bag | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...religion either as an abstract or a grab bag is not true religion. "If we ask it at all, we should not ask abstractly, 'Should I be religious?' but rather 'Should I be a Jew?' or 'Should I be a Roman Catholic?' or 'Should I be a Protestant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God v. Grab Bag | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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