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Word: eggs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressagent: "Do we have to have all the photographers here now?" A day later, in San Francisco, when someone pushed a bewildered four-year-old girl into his arms and told her to kiss him, Adlai looked terribly embarrassed. The girl gave him a basket of Easter eggs ("Tell him he's a good egg, honey!" cried someone), and photographers tried to get him to run through the scene again. "No," he cried. "I'm not really in this kind of competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: One Man's Meat | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...President Magsaysay enjoys shaking hands with visitors, tours through the tropical countryside which include a look at native dancing and cockfighting plus a whopping big Filipino meal (a barbecued pig, prawns, coconut ice cream eaten out of a coconut shell). One local delicacy for the daring: balut, a duck egg ready to hatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TRAVEL IN THE FAR EAST | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...increase its teaching staff. But even with more teachers and smaller classes, Washington educators know that they are in for a long uphill fight. "You can't put two school systems together overnight," said one administrator last week. "The shaking-down process moves slower than sand through an egg beater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Integration's Headaches | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...uncentral kitchen gets closer by several minutes to the three minute egg than most other dining halls and the food in general keeps ahead of the College standard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Keeps Up Gold Coast Luxury In Architecture, Food, Activities, Rules | 3/29/1956 | See Source »

...wealthy Chicago textile manufacturer, Mansure, 54, had run GSA since May 1953. In the process he had built a reputation as a money-saving, detail man. So meticulous that he separates the meat from the potatoes when eating beef hash, he saved paper clips, and put three-minute egg timers on subordinates' desks to shorten telephone calls. But Mansure's fine eye for housekeeping details (which won the praise of the Hoover Commission) was not always matched by a clear view of the bigger picture. He seemed to have one standard for office efficiency and quite another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ed & Mr. Mansure | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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