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Word: contentedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cesare's Swordplay. Lucrezia grieved over such quick and bloody changes. (Says Biographer Bellonci: "She had al ways been contented with her husbands as long as she was able to keep them.") Still, although she tried desperately to save the life of her second husband, she forgave her brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Acquiescent Woman | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Moving speedily past Symphony Hall, museums and medical centers, Vab began to hum an off-key Christmas carol softly to himself. Around him, cheerful Christmas displays glowed brightly in red and green. Vag was contented. You can really see a lot of Boston on a tour like this, he thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And On Your Left | 12/16/1953 | See Source »

Like the low man on a totem pole, Ozzie, 46, carries most of the load. He produces and directs the TV show, edits and cuts the film, polishes the scenarios ("I make the words sound real and natural"), keeps his sponsors (Hotpoint and Listerine) contented, and, in his free time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Great Competitor | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

For many years before World War II, Joda Isenbart was a contented kosher meat dealer in Vienna. Then came the Anschluss, which joined Austria's voice to that of Germany in Hitler's hymn of hate against the Jews. Joda and his family were sent from one concentration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Outgathering | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Trieste's special police, recruited from both Italians and Slavs of Zone A, are trained and commanded by the British; they are under the direct control of Britain's Major General Sir Thomas John Willoughby Winterton, Military Governor of Trieste (and also commander of the British and U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIESTE: Blood in the Streets | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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