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Word: dust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that now is the time to buy before we get jammed." In the same way, businessmen look for industrial expansion, now in the doldrums, to pick up speed again. Many companies, particularly in heavy industries, can be expected to examine their present capacity with an eye to future contingencies, dust off expansion plans they had previously deferred during the recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: A Nudge on the Turn | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...currently costs $1,000 or more. Counterfeiters, doing a thriving trade, have learned to duplicate the primitive process of coiling ropes of clay into the rough form, then smoothing it into shape. They even grind up old Haniwa fragments to powder the new interiors with ancient dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Haniwa Rage | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...with the occupational sneer-who forces them to lead him to The Buried Treasure. First they cross The Bad Lands, then they encounter The Bluecoats, later they come to The Ghost Town, finally they are attacked by The Indians-a tribe of cosmetic Comanches who bite the dust as delicately as though it were crepes suzette. At the climax, The Good Guy and The Bad Guy shoot it out to supply the answer to the second most important question the picture poses: Who is faster on The Draw? Nobody seems to know the answer to the most important question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 14, 1958 | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...your swimming pool doesn't work. But you've got to keep remembering that half of living is wanting." Last week Serling had more to fret over than his Hollywood pool. He, his sense of values and his Playhouse go show called A Town Has Turned to Dust were in the eye of one of the wildest storms ever to batter a TV script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Tale of a Script | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...setting-up exercises. Swedish massage and a bowl of yoghurt. Mr Five Per Cent was a health faddist, and for a time lived on a massive diet of carrots washed down with turnip juice. His father had lived to 106. and Gulbenkian fully expected to reach 120. To avoid dust, he sat only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress, and had the air of his Paris mansion filtered through silk screens and fine sprays of water. He reduced his handshake, proffering only the index and middle fingers. For reasons known only to the great mystery man, he preferred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solid Gold Scrooge | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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