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Word: fashion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Involved in the mix-up are a possessive mother, Yvonne, who in true Freudian fashion does not want her 22-year-old son to marry; her sister Claire, who has always been in loves with George, Yvonne's husband; George and Yvonne; and a young woman named Madeleine, whom Michael wants to marry but who, it turns out, has also been loved by Michael's father, George. Now such a situation would, without doubt, wreak confusion in even the most rational of families. When you consider, then, that at least two of Cocteau's characters are not only irrational...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Intimate Relations | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Bill Cleary, in his usual amazing fashion, counted in all of the sextet's goals netting four and assisting in the fifth. Two of the junior's tallies were unassisted, with one hitting the not from the center zone...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Sextet Clinches League Title With 5 to 2 Win Over Tigers | 3/2/1955 | See Source »

...foundry wound up in the hands of trustees, and kept going, after a fashion, on a $25,000 government grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Saintly Requisition | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...made once. My plane had been put at his disposal, and my son was detailed as his aide. And I remember he made the remark, 'Well, I shall certainly be safe,' with my plane and my son. We were good friends, and we could talk in that fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ike & Zuke | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...convertiplane takes off with the rotor shafts vertical, and the rotors lift it into the air helicopter-fashion. Then the pilot tilts the rotors forward so that they begin to act like oversized airplane propellers. As the aircraft gains forward speed, its wing begins to contribute lift. When the rotors have been turned through 90° and are facing fully forward, all the lift comes from the wing, as in a standard airplane. The conversion in the Bell takes about 15 seconds and is said to be smooth and easy. Top speed in horizontal flight: more than 175 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hybrid Aircraft | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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