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Word: bowlful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with hopelessly vulgar reminiscences of her aunt's influenza. ("My aunt died of influenza, so they said, but it's my belief they done the old woman in ... My father, he kept ladling gin down her throat. Then she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl of the spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Charmer | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Spare. In Cleveland, Frank T. Doane, 43, asked the Court of Common Pleas to order his wife not to bowl more than one night a week, complained that she considers herself too expert to play with him and that she spends four nights a week in the alleys, driven by the "unreasonable obsession" that she will one day be national women's champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 16, 1956 | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...Operating Room 6 of Walter Reed General Hospital, a massive, bowl-shaped lamp bathed the operating table in its shadowless glare. Bending over the table with hawklike attentiveness were the four surgeons in their blue-green gowns, white skullcaps and masks, tersely and softly directing a team of 20 physicians, nurses and technicians. On the table, his breathing regular as he fell into a deep sleep, lay Dwight David Eisenhower, 65, 34th President of the U.S., undergoing major surgery to relieve an obstruction of the small intestine. Nearly two hours later, with a steel-grey dawn just breaking over Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: What a Bellyache! | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...rapier thrusts of Barry Wood's forward passes Harvard marched to victory." Both touchdowns in the 13-0 win were scored by Huguley on passes from Wood. Notable, too, was Captain Ticknor's performance: observers say he played the best game of his career in the Yale Bowl that afternoon and was instrumental in stopping the Elis' Booth for the second straight year...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Class of '31 Finishes College in Building Era | 6/13/1956 | See Source »

...situation that seemed quite all right with the well-manned teams of the Big Ten Conference, which last week decided to renew its Rose Bowl contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Chew-Out | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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