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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intuitive wisdom. In time for the final embrace, she usually squashes at least half a dozen domestic crises (mostly of her own making) and straightens out whatever is troubling the neighbors. But her forte is in canny diagnosis of ailments that have baffled her doctor hubby; the silly old dear could not see a wart under his own nose. Actress Reed plays mom with engaging charm. But the directors have hobbled the stride of the show with many a long, purposeless pause, as if they thought that viewers would be howling at the line that preceded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Folks at Home | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...whose only secret all creation sings spring !may- everywhere's here (with a low high low and the bird on the bough) how?why #151;we never we know (so kiss me)shy sweet eagerly my most dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the latest from e. e. cummings | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Tort. In London, attempting to point up the "rather monotonous English style in legal documents," the Law Society's Gazette printed a letter written by an Indian lawyer to a client: "Dear Sir, Unless you pay the rupees within seven days, we shall take such steps as will cause you the utmost damned astonishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...Dear Dr. Pusey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE DISCRIMINATION | 9/25/1958 | See Source »

Victory, But . . . Moving with the rubber-ball energy of a nimble fat man, Khrushchev mounted the red-draped platform opposite the power station. "Dear Comrades!" he cried, and launched into the usual speech of glowing praise. For writing "a glorious new page," the workers were decorated collectively, then and there, with the Order of Lenin. Reminding them that their handiwork was "the largest hydropower station in the world," Khrushchev boasted that "the Americans took over 20 years to build their largest hydropower station, Grand Coulee,"* while "our Soviet workers" needed only seven years for Kuibyshev. "That, comrades, is an outstanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Man in a Hurry | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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