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Word: bargainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-tailored grey-blue suit, he swaggered into Cairo's canopied Republic Square. Just two years earlier, getting ready to nationalize the Suez Canal Co., he had yelled: "Americans, may you choke to death in your fury." Now the crowd of 100,000, assembled by trucks and bargain-rate excursion trains from all over Egypt, roared "Ya Gamal!" (O Gamal!). At length, the huge square stilled, and the President and his honor guests from Iraq waited briefly, during a reading from the Koran: "Those who oppose truth will die angry, but we will conquer." Then, mopping the sweat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: O My Brothers | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Other sponsors are signing on for only 26 or 13 weeks instead of the standard 39, and showing a heavy preference for TV's bargain specials: the filmed western (which can be used for reruns) and quiz shows (which get prizes in exchange for a plug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Time on Their Hands | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...girls to school, trailed them when they went home at night. One paper smuggled a woman reporter into the school disguised as a student. Another tried to get a list of all girls enrolled-something that is by tradition kept secret -by saying that it wanted to send them "bargain-sale circulars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: A Black Lily for the Prince | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...stations. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. disaffiliated its five stations from the networks (four from NBC, one from ABC) to go local, boasts that now all but one rank No. 1 in audience in their respective cities. The networks offer newscasts from Moscow and an occasional big name; local radio offers bargain pork chops at a nearby butcher shop, a $50,000 check that may lie buried in the listener's own backyard, a chance to shake hands with the man who spins Elvis Presley records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Battle for Ears | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...bankroll and dissolve. bargain picked up at public auction for $792, Hard Ridden repaid Millionaire Banker Sir Victor's investment with a Derby winner's $56,000 purse. CJ Although they seem stuck in the second division of the American League, the Detroit Tigers finally managed to boost themselves out of baseball's sociological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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