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Word: dollarses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Your tax dollars have helped Norway and Denmark to reduce their internal debt while ours was mounting," Chicagoans read last week. "We have financed a six-lane highway in Portugal, numerous uncompleted projects in Iran and are now providing free airplane excursions for thousands of Arabs visiting Mecca. The record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thunder on the Right | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

While he was being treated at the hospital for a head wound, the police removed a slip of paper from his jacket, photostated it, and returned the paper to the jacket--all unknown to Costello, who was explaining that he "did not have an enemy in the world." The slip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 235 Pounds and Waddles | 5/16/1957 | See Source »

The celluloid epic patterns set by D. W. Griffith in 1915 have changed very little: you just take some romantic, legendary, historical period like Reconstruction in the South, add a zesty love affair or three between ideal "period" characters to raise the story above documentary level, and interpret history in...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Birth of a Nation | 5/14/1957 | See Source »

Shocked residents of Lampasas, Texas counted three dead and five million dollars damage yesterday from a ten-foot wall of water that crashed through a broken levee into this central Texas town last night.

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Britain Resumes Suez Shipping On Egypt's Terms; Announces Easements of Financial Squeeze | 5/14/1957 | See Source »

At the same time Macmillan set out to put British relations with Egypt back on a businesslike basis. He announced slight easements of Britain's financial squeeze on Egypt and disclosed the two countries soon will begin discussing a dollars-and-cents accounting.

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Britain Resumes Suez Shipping On Egypt's Terms; Announces Easements of Financial Squeeze | 5/14/1957 | See Source »

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