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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first came about a month ago. The last was delivered in person by Chandler's wife Buff. Said she last week: "Goodie and I are old friends. I told him I felt he couldn't win. If that influenced him, I don't know, although I heard that it did." It did-because behind Buff Chandler lay the potential Times influence in drying up Goodie's press and financial support across the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Party Truce | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...rich sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, are some of the most splendid private homes that imported U.S. and European architects can provide. Air conditioners purr in every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public without them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOSLEM WORLD: Beyond the Veil | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...Body, One Ax. Last March, a peripatetic U.S. virologist and pediatrician (with a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) appeared in New Guinea. Crew-cut Dr. Carleton Gajdusek, 35, of Yonkers, N.Y., heard about kuru and plunged into its problems. Tramping through rain-soaked forests to Fore hamlets, he rounded up patients for the neat, bamboo-walled native hospital at nearby Okapa Patrol Post. To do autopsies, he had to haggle with victims' relatives for the bodies. The currency: axes and tobacco. (Dr. Gajdusek got some bodies at the bargain price of only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Laughing Death | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Miracle or Midget? As she began concertizing around Europe to cheering crowds at six, some listeners refused to believe that what they heard came from what they saw. In Berlin distinguished critics got down on all fours to examine her piano for the mechanical contraption that might explain the miracle. In Copenhagen the Danish press had her examined by a doctor to certify that she was really a child and not a midget; but New York critics wildly reached for their superlatives after her Town Hall debut at eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of the Prodigy | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...child had been making more than $75,000 a year for three years when she heard her father say in an unguarded moment; "There is only one thing in this world that counts and that is money, and I teach Ruth to play Beethoven because it brings in the dollars." She was old enough to know that he was not the musician he claimed to be. When her father took over her training completely, she started to play music she did not understand with false phrasing, exaggerated rhythms, distorted emotions. A Town Hall concert climaxed the tension between father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of the Prodigy | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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