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Word: bubbletop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added with a wry poke at fast-traveling Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's gibes at U.S. leadership, "I shall not say-as most people who are traveling nowadays about the world seem to do-everything I think." Taken off to the White House in the President's bubbletop Lincoln, Winston Churchill rested, dined quietly with the Eisenhower family, turned in, at the President's suggestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Old Friend | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Live . . ." When the President flew on to Salina, Kans., then drove with Mamie in his bubbletop limousine 24 miles through sizable, friendlier crowds to home town Abilene (first visit in four years), he showed much more of his famous, warm, arms-up humanity. In Abilene, in the small white frame house in which he and his brothers grew up, Ike happily showed Mamie how the family had used an old cradlelike dough tray in baking bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Give 'Em Hello | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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