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Word: chews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Champion Tony Trabert, 74 matches to 27. He pushed his game to such a high peak that when Kramer tried to talk Australian Lew Hoad into turning pro this year, Hoad snapped back: "I don't think I'm ready. Pancho probably would chew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the World | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...Matching these concessions by trying to reassert Communist control over the farmers, Wladyslaw Gomulka appointed Politburo Member Edward Ochab (once called "a Communist with teeth" by Stalin) to take over the Ministry of Agriculture. Tough and toothy Ochab would have much to chew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Gomulka's Lonely Road | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...Indians peel and boil a starchy tapioca-type root. Their women then chew the root and spit it out to be fermented for about five days. It's pretty intoxicating when you keep at it for 12 or 14 hours as they do at the festivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Discovers Ancient Civilization | 1/9/1957 | See Source »

...harlotry of love and the homosexuality of friendship, shows war grotesquely fumbled and honor traduced. In the violence of its mood and the slackness of its method, in its surface disillusionment and its underlying disgust, in its fierce, fanged bite-yet its biting off more than it can chew-Troilus and Cressida resembles a little those harsh Huxleyan "sophisticated novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...supporters against a tough garrison commander and some soldiers still loyal to longtime (1933-48) Dictator Tiburcio ("Bucho") Carias, whose Nationalist Party also opposes Lozano. Ten were killed. Lesser violence influenced the vote in other places. Voters in one village reported that police forced them at gunpoint to chew up and swallow their Liberal ballots, then forced them to vote for the government's National Union Party (P.U.N...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: By a Landslide | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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