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Word: booth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five more rounds the tension made an ordinary TV isolation booth seem like a rest cure. Closing his eyes and mopping his face, Bobby Crossley delivered terricolous amid wild applause. Seventh Grader Joel Montgomery coolly rapped out pastiche, prolegomenous, successfully spelled susurrus when Bobby shakily tiubbed it. Then Joel missed vinaigrous, and so did Bobby, leaving the game at deuce. In Round 30, Joel gracefully pronounced gracilescent and spelled it correctly; it was Bobby's chance to hold the tie. As he stood under the tall microphone, pondering fanfaronade, Bobby's long trousers seemed to sag. Out came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spellbound | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...allowed at some home games. After a tight 7-6 victory over Dartmouth, the unbeaten Crimson eleven, led by All-American Barry Wood, confidently faced their New Haven rivals in the season's traditional final game--and lost, by a heartbreaking 3-0 score at the hands of Albie Booth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of '34: First To Live in Houses Under Lowell's Plan | 6/9/1959 | See Source »

Schlesinger revealed that the committee has reached "a final decision" and will make a formal recommendation to the Radcliffe trustees on June 9. But he refused to make any statement about the identity of the nominee, beyond the assurance that "it's neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Clare Booth Luce...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Dean of Students at Rutgers May Become Next Radcliffe President | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

Barrow of Fun. In Jefferson City, Mo., convicts at the state penitentiary, lacking a telephone booth, stacked 17 men in one wheelbarrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...President Eisenhower one day last week Clare Booth Luce submitted her resignation. Taking global view from a vantage point high atop towers of Manhattan's fabled, fantastic Rockefeller Center was mellowing mate Henry R. Signposts pointed to a clear and tragic dilemma, resolved only by judicious sacrifice by Clare, chic and civic at fifty-five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Luce Change | 5/5/1959 | See Source »

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