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Word: buffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason is that though the Caroline novels are blatantly aphrodisiacal in intent, they are more than mere buff in content. Author Cecil Saint-Laurent is a serious historian as well as an able hack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Leaves | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...hair in a severe hairdo and is often seen in a dark suit with white blouse and necktie. But last November she appeared at a big party affair in a slashing evening dress, danced with party bigwigs until 2 a.m. Moscow scuttlebutt says Ekaterina is now a sports car buff, drives a speedy ZIS 112. She is also said to be married to the Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia and to have two children, but in Russia, where no such private details are ever recorded in the public press, neither fact is readily verifiable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: O, Ekaterina | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

With a sales eye out for the sports-car buff, Chrysler last week brought out four souped-up models of its regular lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Sporting Life | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Into the U.S. Senate's buff-and-marble caucus room one day last week marched the New York Central Railroad's pink-and-silver Robert R. Young. Railroader Young was there to answer the questions of a Senate Banking subcommittee investigating the recent rash of proxy battles. The Senate subcommittee, headed by Wall Street Alumnus Herbert H. Lehman, wanted Bob Young to explain just how he had managed to win control of the $2 billion New York Central last year, and especially how he made his big deal whereby Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: A Clever Deal | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...columns slowly started up again. The throng swelled to an estimated 35,000, as bystanders and homeward-bound workers joined the parade. In the forbidden Plaza de Mayo, the marchers halted before the buff-colored cathedral and waved their white handkerchiefs. The sea of white signified not surrender, but support and defiance-support for the church, defiance for President Juan Perón, who last October began waging an off-and-on war of harassment against the church (TIME, April 4 et ante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Church Defies Per | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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