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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smiling her festivous best, Washington's party-giving Perle ("hostess with the mostes' ") Mesta took her place at the top of the reception line at the wingding opening of Philadelphia's brand-new $15 million Sheraton Hotel. Suddenly Perle froze, hand outstretched. Facing her: Perle's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

In the buildings, most built around the turn of the century, ceilings are falling, stairways have started to pull away from the walls. Window casements are rotting, beams sagging. In the Broadway school, the Harvardmen noted that "classroom floors vibrate when walked upon." Some of the windows that lead to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Price of Neglect | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Abduction! cried her family and their Catholic friends, and they accused the Rev. David Leathern, who had converted Maura, of spiriting her away. Free Presbyterian Leathern denied any knowledge of the girl's whereabouts, and so did Alan Paisley, moderator of the church. But Paisley eventually produced what he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Mystery of Maura | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

This is its excellence: it honestly faces and thoroughly explores a situation from which our escape will be difficult. And the reader comes to feel, with Sam Norris, "I guess the hour has always been late... Someday it may really be late,, who knows? The bomb is about to fall...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Morrison Novel Sees Human Problems As Pivotal to Dilemma of Atomic Age | 3/15/1957 | See Source »

At 167, Bob Foster ended his season unbeaten as he and Eli Jack Kohr drew, 4 to 4. Foster's points came on a take down and two escapes, while Kohr scored a reversal, an escape, and a minute, 20 second time advantage.

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Wrestlers Beat Elis, 21-8 To End 22-Year Yale Jinx | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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