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Word: churns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inferior to men." Having no respect for themselves, they seem to prefer to have men speak at their clubs, to work for male bosses, and to vote for a second-rate man in an election rather than a first-rate woman. Since they no longer churn the butter, make the candles, plow the fields, or even bring their husbands a dowry, they are deeply plagued by a "sense of parasitism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: People Are Either | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...George McNeil, 40, starts with a still life "as a point of departure. Then almost immediately I see through the object into movements of form and color which create space. I call my paintings 'Space Impelled.' " Clearly McNeil's impulse was to churn space up into something gooey and gay. It took tubefuls of loud color, and a good deal Of single-minded thrashing and splashing, but he managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Space Impelled | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...China was concerned, State Department Mimeograph machines could churn out legal opinions until the Amazon froze without altering one fact: recognition of the Reds would be received through the world as a major change in U.S. policy, with enormous gain of "face" for Peking. It was the kind of problem honest men differed on: the influential Far Eastern division in State wanted to recognize; so far, Harry Truman was against. Most Congressmen who had spoken up at all were also against recognition. These were the arguments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Question Before the House | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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