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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning the letter of John R. Stevenson of Yoder, Wyo.-by all means, no Kennedy for President. He is a Catholic, and all Catholics are bad. His grandfather was a saloonkeeper, and they are all bad. He comes from a town where 99.9999% of the folks have never heard of Yoder, Wyo. Man! That's real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Cambridge, Neil McElroy majored in economics, subbed in basketball ("I would be in for five minutes, then out like a cigar in a swamp"), tootled the piccolo, became president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter-and ran the floatingest poker game in Matthews Hall. When his devout Methodist father heard about the poker, he insisted that Neil take up bridge instead (years before, figuring his sons should sin at home if they sinned at all, he had bought them a pool table to keep them from hanging around pool halls). The upshot: Neil McElroy plays both bridge and poker, enthusiastically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Organization Man | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Announcer on Radio--And now we introduce a noo group being heard on the radio for the first time. It's a gang of seventeen-year-old kids from Phillips Academy called the BROMES. They're gonna sing, "Baby, You Jes' Wait...

Author: By F. W. Byron jr., | Title: The Walls of Jericho | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

...Canaanites worshiped an earth-god. Baal, and Abraham presumably joined in some of their community rites and festivals. But Abraham heard the voice of his own God in the high places. On the Amorite mountain of Ebal, between the city of Luz (later called Bethel) and the ruins of an older city called Ai, Abraham set up his first altar. "While other men," writes Author Hill, "turned to the moon's light, the shadow of rocks, the sanctity of caves, the bounty of water holes, or to the protection of river and sun, to find their manifestations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Patriarch | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...doorway of an all-male ward. A third saw smoke coming from the linoleum floor, and as he watched, it turned into a fine spray of water. Another saw a roll of luminous chicken wire on the floor, but it disappeared as he walked through it. Several heard voices from afar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Dangers of Sleeplessness | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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