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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth, neither mother saw her child naked until she was ready to take it home. By then a weird Gilbert and Sullivan baby switch had apparently taken place. When Mme. Piesset, whose only daughter had died only three years before, found that the boy baby she had called Guy was in reality a girl, she thought it an act of providence, and pursued the matter no further. Jeanne Derock, on the other hand, was mystified and indignant. Unwillingly taking the boy she had registered as Louise, she made no effort to change his legal name, instead began a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Seven-Year Switch | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...audibly grumbling Deputies had their own ill-tempered answer for Bourgès' attitude: they voted 240 to 194 to make him Premier, installing him with fewer votes than Socialist Guy Mollet had in his favor in losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Sheets in the Wind | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...another story in the People section concerning the search in the Library of Congress for an old song wanted by a Congressman? The Library of Congress system bears about the same resemblance to the Dewey decimal system as I'd Rather Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy bears to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Two institutions as holy as the Library of Congress and the Martini are not laughing matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Downwind. In Jersey City, police got a phone tip from Kenneth Thompson, 21, of a tavern robbery by a "good-looking guy," confirmed the theft, tracked down handsome Tipster Kenneth Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...slim six-footer at the bar had an unfamiliar face, but to the gamblers in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, southwest of New Orleans, he looked like an all right guy. He thumbed his racing form with professional elan and flashed a horse-choking roll of bills when he placed a bet or got quarters for the slot machines. These were such solid credentials that the gamblers never bothered to ask who the stranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Boy in Town | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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