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Word: deserting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strange thing. Often, after a big performance there is much applause . . . I receive many curtain calls and many flowers. And yet, sometimes, when I am back home, I find there is a desert in my heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...Disney's first full-length nature films, The Living Desert (which cost $300,000) and The Vanishing Prairie ($400,000), are bulling toward world grosses of $5,000,000 and $4,000,000 respectively. And all over the world, holiday revivals of old Disney favorites are flourishing. In Rio de Janeiro six movie houses are running a seven-day Festival do Disney, and the main department stores have based their Christmas decorations on Disney characters. Said one merchant: "Disney will soon be to us what Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Father Goose | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...care. Their urine and feces are examined with sensitive instruments to determine how fast the radioactive matter is being excreted. Sometimes the cages are airtight, so that the dogs' radioactive breath can be measured too. Radioactive wastes are enclosed in concrete and buried far out on a Utah desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Radioactive Dogs | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...DESERT MUSIC AND OTHER POEMS, by William Carlos Williams, was the maturing of a poet who has not always been easy to take. Completely American, completely on the side of man with all his imperfections, these were poems in celebration of man's humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: POETRY | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...proprietors of Arizona's luxurious Camelback Inn point with pride to their "mouthwatering food" and the hotel's location in the "dry. healthful, sun-blessed desert." They also talk loftily of their policy of accepting only "selected guests." Last week the National Association of Attorneys General, which had planned to hold its annual convention next month in the Camelback, decided to meet in stead in West Virginia's famed Greenbrier Hotel. Reason: the Camelback's slogan of "Selected Guests" turned out to be a euphemism for "Hardly Any Jews Allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Selected Guests | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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