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Word: dad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he has gone to his just reward, I think your Oct. 24 obituary could have been more kind, or was it impossible? My dad dedicated his life to making the world health conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...walk an' talk with my Lord," he bawls, tousled and sweating), and perhaps to his particular audience his shallows of the spirit seem like deeps. On the other hand, the screamers and shriekers and long, ecstatic moaners, as he drags out tormentedly "a favourite of my Morn and Dad's," are clearly getting a separate satisfaction out of their own behaviour. In fact so much of the performance is contributed from the auditorium that it is as hard to assess its merits as it is to explain its success. On the last score, the ostentatiously worn deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Humility at the Hip | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...meant it when he exclaimed: "You are a lucky beast; I'd love to have exciting parents like that." Dickie's mother was the great actress, Naomi Savage-beautiful, talented, unpredictable. His father, Max Town, was one of the world's most famous writers. Dickie saw dad's pictures in the papers; his novels were everywhere; and everything he said was taken seriously by serious people throughout the world. But there was one great drawback to being the son of Naomi and Max: they were not married and never had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with Genius | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...Instructor Eisenhower showed an infantryman's skill in fielding grenadelike questions right back at their tossers. Asked slyly if he expected his Fort Belvoir assignment (probable term: three years) to last longer than Ike's stay in the White House, Major John flashed an Ikelike grin, replied: "Dad doesn't talk to me about those things. He prefers to talk to me about golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...that raise, Mr. Doaks, but my husband keeps nagging me about it." Some fans believe Clark is at his best on the domestic scene, e.g., an adolescent daughter, about to leave on a date with her boy friend, puts the bite on her father: "I'll need more, Dad. Eddie and I go dutch treat, but I have to lend him his half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Neighbors' Neighbor | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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