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Word: gainful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cold as sculptured ice, Ingrid Bergman faced Roberto Rossellini in a Roman court, there to do battle against his latest attempt to gain permanent custody of their three children, who are now in the 13th week of a two-month visit with their father. Distantly, she called him "Signor Rossellini." He baked her in a Latin gaze. "Ingrid," he said, "call me Roberto." With that, her reserve melted into tears. When the show was over, Judge Giovanni Salemi agreed to let her keep the children. She could pick them up next month...

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

Saturday's contest against the University of Massachusetts should give the substitute units an opportunity to gain experience. Though the UMass eleven lacks experience, it rallied for a surprising win over Maine Saturday. When the two teams met last, in 1955, the Crimson swamped the state team...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Eleven Defeats Williams | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...attempt" to stir up anti-American sentiment. Who was guilty of the outrage? Observers pointed out that neutralist Cambodia's relations with its pro-Western neighbors, South Viet Nam and Thailand, were on the mend after several years of tension (TIME, March 16). Only one group stood to gain from chaos in Cambodia: the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: A Present for the King | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...mountain resort of Kuling, formally conceded that nearly every one of it's 1958 production figures had been false (see box). And the errors were no small ones: if the new figures were to be trusted, all the hardship of the communes had produced only a 35% gain in grain, not the 102% Peking had boasted of, and there had been a 28% increase in cotton, not 104%. The false claims had to be confessed so that the planners could sharply drop their targets for next year. The party's communiqué put the blame for the false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Colossal Failure | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Skeletons That Walk. At times he is in purgatory, at times in hell, everywhere creating fantastic visions compounded of memories of life, and odds and ends of curious reading. At one point, he is in an elaborate casino which illustrates the sordid side of man's instinct for gain; again, he and his fellow travelers find themselves in a terrifying place where there are only the skeletons of women, but walking skeletons who are taken sexually by visiting soldiers. The travelers visit many lands of the mind and spirit, but never do they find their souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Way to Nowhere | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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