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Word: boys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approve Ike's sending a boy to trade boasts and boos with expert bogeyman Khrushchev. A less mouthy ball carrier would have been better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...promptly tipped off the sportswriters, stuck Rocky in the line-up to let him put up or shut up. "The minute I said it I knew I made a mistake," says Rocky. "But with God's help I hit 41 homers and I drove in 113 runs." The boy from The Bronx had become a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Season in the Sun | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...farm boy who has made good in world finance is a practical, urbane and polished negotiator who knows many of the world's capitals as well as he knows Urbana (pop. 11,000) and Washington, where his father was a Congressman for eight years. As a boy he worked at odd jobs on Capitol Hill, later got degrees in both arts and law from George Washington University, married the daughter of North Carolina's Democratic Representative Homer Lyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: The World's Moneylender | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...Tennessee hill country. Lying near by, as the book opens, are a pair of boots and a guitar. Warren describes them at length, with a simplicity and precision that is somehow ominous-and a little too mannered not to be irritating. Their significance becomes clear when a country boy and his girl, wandering through the woods with their minds on country matters, see the boots and realize that they belong to the boy's brother. The news spreads in the nearby town that Jasper Harrick is trapped in the cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shadow & Substance | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...professionally emotional account into his tape recorder and fires it off to a radio station.* Soon the hillside is humming like a camp meeting and hurrahing like a circus. The food concession Isaac has arranged is selling all the barbecue it can fork out, and the preacher's boy is also making profitable deals with the TV people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shadow & Substance | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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