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Word: grounded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your account of WAPE broadcasting station was 100% correct. Their programing, although it may be only made up of requests, somehow seems to repeat itself every two or three hours almost record for record. While I love rock 'n' roll, it can be run into the ground, and in that respect WAPE is the chief pile driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Accepting the fact that they could not beat down a popular President, Democratic leaders reluctantly gave ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Stone Wall | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Clinton boy with a bottle. Another shouted: "No gringos leave the park!" Wildly, the Clinton kids ran for an exit, but the gang caught up with most of them. Anthony Krzesinski, 16, fell wounded in the chest and groin. Bobby Young, 16, stabbed in the back, dropped to the ground. Five other boys staggered about, badly cut up. The gang fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Slaughter off Tenth Avenue | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

English & Swahili. Such candid journalism hardly sits well with white officials, who have impounded issues and jailed staffers, sometimes confiscated the cameras of Drum photographers on the ground that any "coloured" with a camera must surely have stolen it. These difficulties do not perturb Drum's Editor Henry Thomas Hopkinson, 54, former editor of the London Picture Post (now defunct), who went to Johannesburg in 1958, regularly entertains native staffers in his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Drum Beat in Africa | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...neighborhood problem, like juvenile delinquency; if not snuffed out in one spot. it quickly spreads to another. Yet it is almost impossible to stop: digging only exposes more seeds, poison is often ineffective or kills other grasses, mowing only conditions crab grass to produce its seeds closer to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Wicked Weed | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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