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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The unfettered fancy of Jules Verne never conjured up such a monstrous metallic whale. Verne's fictional Naiitilus, 232 ft. long, could have nestled snugly in the belly of Triton, the eighth nuclear-powered submarine to join the U.S. fleet, scheduled for launching this week in the Thames River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Triton & Skate | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Of French West Africa's nearly 19 million people, nine million are Moslems, one million Christians, the rest pagan animists. The Negroes alone speak 120 different languages. Just outside the teeming modern city of Abidjan, villagers still slaughter small children and toss their disemboweled bodies into the river to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French West Africa: French West Africa, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Front to Rear. In Calgary, Alta., Frederick Nelson Big Belly applied to change his name to Frederick Nelson Eagle Tail.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

¶ An electric violin that enables the player with a puny tone to boost it merely by twisting a couple of knobs on the belly. Says a salesman: "It might lay an egg; then again, it might be the hottest thing in the country." Price: about $200.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: By the Numbers | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

But young Bas Wie remembered the happier days of the bighearted Australians, who not only drove the Japanese away, but gave him candy, bully beef and rides in their trucks, until it was time for them to go home. One night in August 1946 Bas Wie thought of his old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Kupang Kid | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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