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Word: gays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the ist Cavalry Division, which had landed earlier at Pohang (see below), arrived to give the 24th the relief it so sorely needed and deserved. The new arrivals were fresh and eager. Their commander, Major General Hobart Gay, promised a bottle of champagne to any man who got a Communist tank. As Gay's men moved up to the front, they met the gaunt, bone-tired G.I.s of the 24th Division, some barefooted, some almost naked, all staggering from exhaustion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Retreat from Taejon | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Back on the Williams burg, the President burnished the yacht rail with his elbow like a Gay Nineties bartender, and called to reporters, "What'll you have, boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Man at Work | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Oslo, a motorist who is overly gay when he leaves the bar is liable to be tapped on the shoulder by a policeman and asked down to the police station. Norwegian law provides that the police may give any driver a blood test if they have "fair reason" to suspect that he has had too much akevitt-i.e., more than a concentration of five-tenths of a milligram of alcohol per cubic centimeter in the blood. * Recently, a Norwegian driver who had had a few drinks but wanted to move his car a few feet into a better parking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Sober & Silly | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Adams was 23 by now, a stolid, pleasant fellow with, as one friend observed, "a little capillary vein of-shall we call it satire? It breaks out when least expected." He was either very dull or very sharp with the ladies, they were never sure which. When gay Hannah Quincy coyly told him she knew some Latin and offered "Puella amat puer," John quickly countered: "Puella what? . . . The object of the verb takes the accusative, in Latin. If you are trying to say the boy loves the girl .. . Or do you mean, possibly, the girl loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Lackluster | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...away, and more than all, reformed the manners of Western Europe to woman's advantage. Item: men were no longer permitted to shamble, hang-stocking and grime-necked from the chase, into a lady's presence; instead, the bear-limbed barons were required to get up in gay, slashed mantles and pointed shoes and drench themselves in a daze of scent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Greatest Frenchwoman | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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