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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ilya Glazanov, 28, chose the third path and invoked the wrath of Culture Minister Mikhailov. Last year he exhibited a one-man show whose main interest point was a modest picture of his beautiful wife Nina lying nude on a bed. Man-in-the-street comments ran from "beautiful woman" to "shocking bourgeois immorality...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Bourgeois Art | 2/10/1959 | See Source »

...value to buy the MTA lots on the Charles River, McNamara stated, "Cambridge is entitled to first priority on land like that, on which city loses a lot of taxes." The mayor said that the city would "make every effort" to buy the MTA land, if the Transit Authority chose to sell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayor Claims Priority For City in MTA Sale | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...most resignedly. Trujillo thought that Peron seemed too much of a showpiece living in his Ciudad Trujillo hotel; the weary Argentine obligingly donned his red baseball cap, gathered his blonde secretary, poodles, a motorcycle and a motor scooter and headed for a country villa. For his exurban retreat, he chose a soft-blue-and-white stucco house seven miles east of the capital, facing out over the Caribbean. As explanation of the move, he said that he was "bothered" by the noisy Cuban exiles who invaded his hotel when Batista arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Three Men in a Funk | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Soviet citizen died, and the Devil gave him a choice of going to the Communist or the capitalist Hell. Unhesitatingly he chose the Communist "because there is certain to be a fuel shortage in that sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SOVIET JOKES | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...grant alloted to Brown University is "of no consequence to us," said President Keeney, who added, "it is a mystery why the government chose this method of distrbution...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Colleges Protest Way Grants Were Allotted | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

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