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Word: eventer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number without pants." Like most of Hollywood, which was like most of the U.S., Shirley MacLaine had the Khrushchev visit on her mind (she is an official movie hostess) and, since it was inevitable, saw no reason for not relaxing and making it the gayest oddball social event of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Can-Can Without Pants? | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...largest group ever to arrive from the British colony that most Americans know vaguely as the land of the Mau Mau. What the Kenyans knew about the U.S. was more specific: scholarships totaling some $100,000 were sending them to 52 colleges and universities, from Howard to Hawaii. The event was not one to make British colonial officials cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Out of Africa | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...impress people with his own life, with what he is as an individual, what he says, and what he thinks, the way he drinks beer or reads a poem. Those who like him for what he is can always say he would be the same in any event, that Catholicism has made not the slightest difference except to get him up earlier on Sundays. They can say this, but in most cases it will not be what they think...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Agnosticism, Misunderstanding Challenge University Catholics | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...with long, cool drinks. Caravans of tourists swarmed to the mountains and national parks. Ten thousand pleasure craft were anchored in California's San Diego and Mission bays, and beaches everywhere were jammed. Minneapolis braced itself for 50,000 fun-loving American Legionnaires on convention bent. Almost every event seemed to draw big crowds: thousands of Chicagoans tensely watched the league-leading White Sox play ball, and in Los Angeles, more than 85,000 watched an exhibition football game between the professional Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Curtain Going Up | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...statesmen would not have to sit in silence because neither speaks the other's language. Charles de Gaulle planned to meet the presidential jet at Le Bourget and escort Ike up the Champs-Elysees. Meticulously checking all the arrangements himself, De Gaulle scribbled beside one scheduled event, "Not good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Waiting for Ike | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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