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Word: fires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Methodist, I cannot stomach this trend, which is, I believe, of the Evil One. The trend, by establishing cold formalism in the church, stamps out the fire which imbued early Christians with zeal and a passion for souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Slow Burn. In Yorii, Japan, Mina Ogawa, 76, took belated revenge on her ex-fiance, Kinjyuro Oba, 83, who broke off their engagement 39 years ago, set fire to his house and destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...dinner at the home of Minister of State Raul Roa, and talked until 2:30 a.m. Bonsai had sore topics to fire away at, including 1) fair-compensation for the $300 million in U.S. sugar holdings now facing expropriation, 2) the 21% rate slash forced on the $272 million U.S.-controlled-Cuban Electric Co., and 3) the 87 U.S. citizens arrested over the past eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Turning Tough | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...would make the angels puke." cried James Cameron in the News Chronicle. "Of what really goes on in high places one emerges from that ludicrous marquee with a blinding ignorance. Applauded by many an American newsman, the Daily Herald's Hugh Pilcher wrathfully arose in the Hagertorium to fire some questions: "Mr. Hagerty. are any of us to take these briefings seriously? Are we going to hear anything about the great international issues, or are we going to hear simply what they ate and not what they said? Now a straight answer for once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brouhaha in the Hagertorium | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...self-styled conservative. Byrd-refuses to follow the trend that is breaking down the barrier between classics and jazz, will not hop up a piece of serious music. "It's a wedding that loses the best of both," he says. "It destroys the fire of jazz-which should be hot-blooded and swing hard-and it makes inferior classical music." Byrd keeps the forms divorced, plays one, then the other. "The arrangement," says Showboat Manager Peter Lambros, "has been extremely profitable for both of us." With room for only 80 customers, the small cellar club grosses $3.500 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Between Two Loves | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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