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Word: filles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably the "perhaps" I didn't like. When I'd finished the cheeses, cold cuts, fishes, meats, and salads I returned to the smorgasbord table. I was scraping the bottom of the banana and cranberry bowl as a plump, seventyish woman in chet's attire bustled in to fill the dish. "Ya?" she asked. Ya, I smiled in reply...

Author: By The Walsus, | Title: All You Can Eat | 3/24/1955 | See Source »

...defense has dominated world affairs-from budgets to foreign policy-for more than 15 years. Nonetheless, the nation's academicians still brush off the study of war as a matter best left to professional military men. Result: a hard-to-fill hole in the education of civilians who shape U.S. policy at home and abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Filling the Gap | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...fact," he growled, "that a quantity of plutonium, probably less than would fill this box on the table*. . . would suffice to produce weapons which would give undisputable world domination to any great power which was the only one to have it. There is no absolute defense against the hydrogen bomb . . . [Before its consequences] imagination stands appalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Defense by Deterrents | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Originator of the weekly lunchtime sessions is Bangor's mild-mannered School Superintendent Homer Hendricks, 40, a Methodist. After hearing a talk by a local Roman Catholic priest stressing the need for closer ties between Bangor's churches and its youngsters, Hendricks decided to fill the gap. With the support of local clergymen and parents, he made available each Tuesday a classroom for any minister who would spend the 45-minute lunch recess with pupils of his faith. Attendance is entirely voluntary. For the first sessions, held early last month, 100 pupils showed up, some with their Bibles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schooltime Religion | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...says he. "At Sebring, the drivers who nurse their cars carefully through the long grind stand a chance of scoring simply because they have finished." With Wacky Arnolt himself, John Panks, general manager of Rootes Motors, Inc., and Bob Grier, president of the Motor Sports Club of America, to fill out his team, René has high hopes that all his Arnolt-Bristols will finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Oldtimer | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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