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Word: christmases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Presided over Christmas dinner with the family, including grandchildren. Main item: a 42-lb. turkey.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Backward Step | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Spouting Snow. Among the dunes and date palms of the Gaza Strip, he called on Brazilian and Indian units deployed along the Israeli border, inspected a hospital staffed by Canadians and Norwegians. At their encampment, the Swedes built a big bonfire in his honor near the beach and tried to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Army of Peace | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Leaving the Castel Nuovo, the Christian Democrats passed by a long queue of Neapolitans lined up to receive the mayor's usual Christmas distribution of free spaghetti and canned tomatoes. As a political argument, it was hard to beat. Groaned a Christian Democratic politician: "It looks as if Lauro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: King of the South | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

General Electric Theater: As Director and narrator of The Trail to Christmas, Hollywood's James Stewart spun a seasonal western yarn about an hombre named Ebenezer Scrooge, "the richest man in the whole territory." Sure enough, Dickens' A Christmas Carol made itself right at home on the range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Parameter. In Santa Rosa, Calif., City Manager Sam B. Hood relaxed a city charter provision forbidding city employees to give Christmas presents to their superiors, instructed department heads that they could accept a gift "if you can eat it, drink it or smoke it in one day."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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