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Word: big (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Illinois' Paul H. Douglas, another outspoken advocate of big-spending welfare programs, rose to "agree with the Senator from Pennsylvania." Also chiming in: Wisconsin's William Proxmire, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey, who promised the farm belt an entirely "new" Democratic farm program, which is now discreetly buried in Humphrey's desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Big Target | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...astonishingly good young trumpeter. Then the saxman finds a pianist at a Harlem rent party, and the trio sounds even better as a quartet. Bookings pick up, and with the addition of two more saxophonists and a drummer, the outfit seems on the point of blowing itself a big name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Beat | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Tony Randall, Judith Anderson and Margaret O'Brien concoct an evening full of problems out of the small talk and big times of cafe society. Based on The Second Happiest Day, 1953 bestseller by John Phillips, son of Bestseller John P. Marquand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Dedication of the St. Lawrence Seaway (CBS, 10 a.m.-12 noon, live; ABC, 11 a.m.-12 noon, live; NBC, 1-1:30 p.m., tape). Speeches by President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth to commemorate the completion of the big ditch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Tufts Arena Theatre (Medford): June 30-July 4, Ionesco's "The Lesson" and "Jack"; July 7-11, Goodrich and Hackett's "The Great Big Doorstep"; July 14-18, Glasgow's "Allison's House"; July 21-25, Bagnold's "The Chalk Garden"; July 28-August 1, Ugo Betti's "The Burnt Flowerbed"; August 4-8, Giraudoux' "The Enchanted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Events Schedule | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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