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Word: dime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a prosaic civil ceremony in the city hall of Versailles, pale, black-browed Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetskoy Rubirosa, 43 this week, ex-countess, twice an ex-princess, motored back to her rose-festooned Ritz Hotel suite in Paris with her sixth groom. Having demoted herself to a baroness, Barbara beamed nonetheless at her attentive husband, once Nazi Germany's top tennis ace, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46. He had met Barbara about 18 years before in Cairo. Amidst toasts at the Ritz, the baron recalled: "We liked each other very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Poetry magazines are not very strange phenomena in college communities. But Harvard's youngest, Audience by name, is in some ways unique. It costs a dime and appears every other week. And it has an aim unusual for a literary magazine. Assuming that discussion will bring interest, and perhaps awareness, Audience tries to produce controversy about local poems and poets. The danger in this assumption is clear: noise doesn't always imply knowledge. So far this year, however, Audience has steered a successful path between...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Audience: 1 & 2 | 10/15/1955 | See Source »

...come) commanded only a few thousand men. They seemed little more dangerous to Perón & Co. than the June 16 rebellion, snuffed out in six hours by inner-circle generals guarding their vested interests in the Perón regime. But this time rebel leaders showed spectacular dime-novel pluck and luck. While Generals Lonardi and Videla Balaguer were holding Córdoba, Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas daringly boarded the navy's flagship cruiser, locked the Peronista fleet commander in his cabin, invited the navy to join the rebellion. "I am not going to deceive anybody," messaged Rojas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: New Broom | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...counter, one large shotgun-and long, lean Storekeeper Pinney, 57, who never loosed a lethal bullet during his three years on the El Paso police force, but has made up for it since. His record in nine holdups since 1940: three holdup men dead, eight wounded. None got a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: In the Blink of an Eye | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Neither Snow Nor Rain. In Gulfport, Miss., the postman correctly delivered to J. R. and T. S. Glower a letter from Waco, Texas addressed: "Downtown Furniture Store Run by Two Brothers who Look Alike, Across Street from Dime Store, Appliance Store at One End of Street, Dry Goods Store at Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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