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Word: gracefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serve, Pancho's long legs and long reach always got him to the net in time to put the ball away. Little (5 ft. 6 in.) Ken was forever trapped halfway, pecked to death by shots that snicked at his feet. Pancho covered the court with that extra grace that made everything work, and at both Wellington and Auckland he won in a breeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the World | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...street dancing and a torrent of free champagne. No longer would Monacans worry that Rainier would die without an heir, a catastrophe that might have eventually subjected them to France's high taxes and military draft as the prizes of a French annexation. After the easy birth, Princess Grace, 27, was soon nursing healthy Caroline, drinking beer at each meal on her doctor's orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Massachusetts High School Teacher George Metalious, husband of No. 1 best-selling Novelist Grace (Peyton Place) Metalious, 32, father of her three children, told newshounds that he and Grace have split. He was mum on his reasons. though Grace had once explained that while she was grinding out her libido-loaded book George "cooked, fed the kids, ran the school and never once objected." Their impending divorce was perhaps based on the same grounds that inspired Grace to dedicate her novel obliquely: "To George-For All the Reasons He Knows So Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...Grace Chemical Co. Du Pont has contracted to buy 600-acre tract, plans to build plastics, chemical plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

That Jack Peurifoy was given the grace to believe that it was a just and good God who in His inscrutable wisdom had given his son this "hardest problem" is gratifying. Other countless parents, from the time of Adam and Eve to our present day, have been troubled about the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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