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Word: bakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were greeted by boos and catcalls. But with troops on hand, no violence flared. To keep tempers down, the government canceled all liquor licenses, closed the bars and shops, where Scotch normally sells at $3.50 a fifth. Supervisors kept the power plant going; a few white housewives learned to bake bread at home. Though the strike dragged on, the union had little chance to gain its real goal of political power this time, or in this way. Meanwhile the colony was losing some $110,000 a day in tourist dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: Strike for Power | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...empire of 450 studios piling up an annual gross of $60 million in the U.S. and six foreign countries. Between running the empire and helping to plan and rehearse the TV show, Kathryn has enough excess energy to rise daily at 6 a.m. in her Park Avenue apartment and bake cakes and cookies for Arthur to munch at the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Sponsor's Wife | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...when I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased," wrote Anne Morrow Lindbergh lightly in her bestselling Gift from the Sea (TIME, Mar. 21, 1955). But writing poetry has been a serious concern of Mrs. Lindbergh's since her girlhood. "When I was young, I felt so small/And frightened, for the world was tall," ran one of her early verses. The poems of her 303 and 403, collected here for the first time, show that, as she grew out of those girlish fears, she also grew to be courageously at home in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Better than Biscuits | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...moving into completely new lines with take-over of Duncan Hines enterprises, which inspects, approves restaurants and lodgings, and issues guidebooks and credit cards. P. & G., whose sales hit the billion-dollar mark in the fiscal year ended June 30, also bought the Hines line of prepared cake and bake mixes from Nebraska Consolidated Mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...light aircraft, there is no more pleasant flight than the 299-mile run from San Diego to Phoenix. Soaring high above the saffron badlands and khaki peaks that bake beneath a searing sun, skirting the Mexican border, a man can make it easily in four hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: A Desert Tale | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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