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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The future looked good, Birrell thought. "The big problem in Brazil is to select which opportunity you want to concentrate on. It's like being a hungry kid in a candy store. You don't know which box to pick from." Take castor oil: "It is the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Gay Victim | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

By late in the evening, Birrell's delight with life in Brazil was gone in a wave of man-without-a-country nostalgia, and his eyes were glistening. "I don't know what I'm a victim of," he said, "but I'm a victim all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Gay Victim | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Sipping an all white ice cream soda in a campus snack bar, Mike the Knife (as the press had begun to call him) said his elbows were clean; too bad about Bates, but he just couldn't stop. U.S.C.'s Coach Don Clark backed up his man, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Too Rough for Football | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

The fraud had not been occasional, as his fans had hoped; it was not merely a matter of a few questions supplied to keep him going after he had reached the top on his own. It had been as carefully planned from the start as a well-organized stock swindle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Van Doren & Beyond | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Just before testifying last week, Charles made a last-ditch attempt to wangle favored treatment from newsmen. To the nation's top TV critics and commentators-NBC's Chet Huntley, the New York Times's Jack Gould, the New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby, et...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Van Doren & Beyond | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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