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Word: divorcee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was the end of any pretense at any political unity among the aging "anti-Fascists." After a tense meeting of the AFPFL, the rivals last week agreed to a "divorce by mutual consent." In a radio address to the nation, Premier U Nu said: "I did my best to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Cherchez la Femme | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

But Billy will need all the help he can get, and he knows it. "Statistics about San Francisco indicate that it is one of the most spiritually needy cities in the country," he said last week. "It has three times the suicide rate of any other major city in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Billy at the Golden Gate | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Oscar discusses his illness, brings his hand to his heart and says: "If I didn't hold it, my heart would fall out." He has a knack for sharp, snide ad-lib remarks on just about anything, including his sponsors: ("Now for the most important, climactic moment of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Frenzied Road Back | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

If Author Fleming is guilty of using the old school tie as a cultural garrote, it is, fittingly enough, his own. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, 49-year-old Ian Fleming served in Naval Intelligence during World War II, is now foreign manager of the proper Sunday Times. He is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Upper-Crust Low Life | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Order in the House. In Fort Worth, Mrs. Forest C. Barber, suing for a divorce, charged that her physician husband set up a written system of household rules, imposing fines on her of $5 if she failed to awaken him in the morning, $2 for not having coffee ready on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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