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Word: eggs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tubby said that far from avoiding "egg-heads," Stevenson had been receiving advice right along from many intellectuals, including Schlesinger. He pointed out that the campaign so far is still on the primary level...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Stevenson Won't Abandon 'Egghead' Advisory Group | 5/8/1956 | See Source »

Until last Thursday special licenses from the Department of Foreign Commerce were required to export Easter egg dye, hair tonic, dentures, and baby bibs to the Soviet Union. these and 700 other significant non-strategic commodities are now absolved from the licensing requirement and may be freely shipped to the Soviet bloc by American traders. By this action the Administration is attempting to pacify domestic exporters and foreign especially British, critics who have been charging the U.S. with obstructing world trade and have been agitating for increased U.S. commercial relations with Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trade Tactics | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

...Nest Egg. In Lubbock, Texas, Robert Lee was arrested for illegal possession of liquor after agents searched his farm, found bottles hidden in the turkey pen, under a rabbit hutch, in the chicken coop, under a setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...closed caucus of Republican members. "We simply cannot send this bill to the President," Massachusetts' gnarled Joe Martin told the waverers among his colleagues. "It's a bad bill, and I'm sure he won't accept it." On the other side, Texas' egg-bald Sam Rayburn and other Democratic leaders were telling the doubtful among the Democrats that the bill might provide the only way to get a Democrat elected President in November. A key proposition in the Democratic reasoning: if Congress should pass the bill and the President should veto it (as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: A Pest-Ridden Harvest | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...Henry Jones as a lack-wit garage mechanic who first fails in an attempt to murder his wife, and then wants her to live when she has a near-fatal accident. Climax! sniffled over the woes of beautiful Ruth Roman as she gambled away her husband's nest egg, was accused of stealing $5,000, and made a gesture toward suicide before falling into hubby's arms in a roadside motel for the final clinch that solved everything. Lux Video Theater struggled hopelessly with a limp script about some papier-mâché gangsters who were routed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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