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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, only 500 U.S. troops will remain to train and advise the new South Korean army which faces the big, well-organized Communist army of North Korea along the 38th Parallel. Without internal stability the South might soon be easy pickings for the North. This week's raid was the sharpest episode yet in the struggle between the Korean administration and its legislature over how to achieve that stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Temporary Roof | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...state will buy out big landowners and, in turn, be paid for the land by small farmers with a fraction of their crop for several years. The state will pay landlords in certificates which they can use to buy shares in former Japanese industries from the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Temporary Roof | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...their flatbottomed, flower-decked canoas, Xochimilco's boatmen pole sightseers, picnickers and lovers between the canals' eucalyptus-lined banks. Other canoes with gardenias, carnations and violets draw alongside; or gondolalike chalupas glide up while their mariachis play and sing La Paloma or Cielito Lindo. Some of the big canoas have luncheon tables in their centers at which the tourists can eat mole and tortillas and drink the famed Mexican beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Water for Tourists | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...with such labels as "The Sepia Sinatra" and "The Bronze Balladeer" to help lure customers in. Some were lured, and many of them began buying Billy's M-G-M records. By last year, after his Fool that I Am had sold around 200,000, Billy, a big, well-set-up (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) boy with flashing white teeth, had begun to look like a top crooner in his own right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mr. B. Goes to Town | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...mail was pouring in, and the bobby-sox clubs ("The Girls Who Give In When Billy Gives Out") were forming. Two months ago, Billy got the nod from the high lamasery of all crooners, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, a place sing-sanctified by Sinatra's first big-time appearance there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mr. B. Goes to Town | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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