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Word: floweredness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bugles by Night. Myers, a 34-year-old, $4,800-a-year refrigeration-equipment tester, moved into his pastel-pink, three-bedroom, $12,150 ranch house in August because his family had outgrown a two-bedroom cottage in a predominantly Negro community a mile away. But his coming to Levittown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: War of Nerves | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

In pre-Mame days he kept busy patching up other people's novels, ghostwriting and being promotion manager for Foreign Affairs. Seen on a midtown Manhattan street, tall, lean, blue-eyed Tanner decked in a midnight-blue Homburg, with umbrella tightly furled, could still pass for a refugee from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hairy Jape | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

In Naples, in the late weekday afternoon, a strange un-Neapolitan procession suddenly throbs to life. Hundreds of American cars, driven by buoyant, carefree American Navymen or their wives, begin their winding way through the ancient streets, far out to rented country villas or to the shiny new apartment buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Join the Navy & See Naples | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Soldier of Fortune (20th Century-Fox) plays out its tiny melodrama against the vast, eye-filling CinemaScope backdrop of Hong Kong harbor. Incredible islands rise perpendicular from the blue sea, and fleets of fishing junks, like floating windmills, drift by on the tide. Ashore, the narrow streets are jammed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Black & White Leo. Leo, as the Belgians call it, has tripled its population in the past six years. Its 20,000 whites live apart in a suburb that seems far too big for them. There are broad, empty boulevards and a scattering of modern skyscrapers, but the buildings seem isolated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: Boom in the Jungle | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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