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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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As individuals, the garment workers are the most disputatious, diverse, and in some ways the most innately disrespectful of authority of any segment in all U.S. labor. But they have a boss who is much more than a boss. To them, busy, bumptious little David Dubinsky is leader, father, prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Little David, the Giant | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

It was, said Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, the second most important return of a dead hero in Jewish history; the most important, said Ben-Gurion, occurred 3,300 years ago when the Jews carried Joseph's casket back to Palestine from their Egyptian exile. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Second Most Important | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Jim's wife, Sentoria, heard about it and came rushing down to take him home. But she couldn't keep him there-Jim strolled back to the poolroom for a while, then sauntered over to the Busy Bee for a cup of coffee. That was when the cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Society Is Wonderful People | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Other forces were hammering away to exploit discontent. On the extreme right, the fanatical anti-Moslem Hindu Maha-sabha advocates war on Pakistan. Three times in recent weeks extremist revolutionaries have tried to assassinate Nehru. Bengal was warming to extreme left-wing Demagogue Sarat Bose, brother of notorious Subhas Bose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Uncertain Freedom | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

"What a spectacle, in the spring, beneath a dead mole!" wrote Jean Henri Fabre. "The horror of this laboratory is a beautiful sight for one who is able to observe and meditate. Let us overcome our disgust; let us turn over the unclean refuse with our foot. What a swarming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Insects' Homer | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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