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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family and learn proper manners. Then he brought her back and married her. They lived happily together for 47 years, and had 15 children-such a family that once at a Christmas party, when he leaned down to ask a moppet, "And whose little girl are you, my dear?" she burst into tears and sobbed, "I'm yours, Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Squarson | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...long-elusive Junior lost no time on the amenities, plopped his 210-lb. frame into the witness chair, and settled right down to his pleas of possible self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment. He gave his name and address, then began to sound like a tape recording of dear old dad. Beck's bad boy managed to run up 124 uses of the Fifth (papa topped 200), and in one burst of speed tossed off 73 refusals in 20 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Like Father | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...confidence in Italy's Senate, the whole nation rang with outrage. In the halls of Parliament, other Deputies mockingly greeted Christian Democrats with a stiff-armed Fascist salute. From the industrial north came frantic warnings that acceptance of Fascist support was sure to cost the Christian Democrats dear in next year's general election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Blackshirts' Revenge | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...West's quasi-religious figures: "A beard would become him, would accent his Old Testament look." To the millions without emotional refuge, says one character sardonically, "the Miss Lonelyhearts are the priests of twentieth-century America." The mail brings the daily semiliterate confessions of horror. "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts," one letter begins: "I am sixteen years old now and I dont know what to do ... When I was a little girl it was not so bad because I got used to the kids on the block makeing fun of me, but now I would like to have boy friends like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Despiser | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...going. Such pips often come at the oddest moments. A smartly dressed, tart-tongued Chinese career woman from Hong Kong brought Coates a pair of knitted socks after a business trip to Formosa. Asked the surprised Coates: "You knitted them in-in Taipei?" Quipped she sardonically: "Of course, dear. In Taipei everybody knits-nothing else to do." Watching the sacred wooden temples of Nara, 8th century capital of Japan, Author Coates senses the painstaking, frustrating drive towards perfectionism in the Japanese soul, virtually the only high civilization ever to record and preserve its architectural masterpieces in wood for centuries ("What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wide, Wide World | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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