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Word: downed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometime I feel like, baby, committin' suicide . . . I got the nerve if I just had anythin' to do it with. I'm gain' down slow, somethin' wrong with me. I've got to make a change while that I'm still young. If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Folk Hunter | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

A Little Priming. Massachusetts-born and Harvard-educated, 36-year-old Folklorist Oster picked up a doctor's degree in English and Folk Literature at Cornell, dabbled in radio, eventually gravitated to L.S.U. because he was fascinated by the diversity of folk music in Louisiana. He follows the folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Folk Hunter | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

In Europe it has been customary for the art critics of each country to boost native artists. U.S. critics have long declined to do the same, but now they are changing. Sign of the trend: George Braziller Inc. last week published six monographs on U.S. artists, to sell at $3.95...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boost for the Natives | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

First Game. Opening the series in their own Comiskey Park behind burly, 39-year-old Pitcher Early Wynn (22-10), the no-hit White Sox suddenly turned robust sluggers while the Dodger defense fell apart in a horrendous, seven-run third inning. Centerfielder Duke Snider dropped one fly ball in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tale of Two Cities | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Nothing happened. He reeled in quickly, the plug streaking like a toy torpedo. For an hour he worked over a 100-yd. stretch of water like a master artilleryman laying down a barrage pattern. Nothing happened. But Oscar Flanders, finest surf caster on Martha's Vineyard, knew better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Stalker | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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