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Word: hi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked toward the cleat-chewed turf, but he shed his years like a mantle and straightened up smartly as the call rang out: "All right, kickers and punters," and the 39 players ended their scrimmage. Nine young men fell out and trotted over to the venerable newcomer. "Hi, coach," they chorused. Then one asked: "How about some kicking today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Adding Life to Years | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...undertaker was beside himself ("This is criminal!"), and his caller finally let him off the hook by switching to his natural voice: "Hi there. This is Jonathan Winters. Only kidding." Exploded the undertaker: "You were an idiot even in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: If You're Not Sick . . . | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Also--and residents in Winthrop's J-entry be warned--he has assembled a hi-fi set of amazing amplitude, easily capable of penetrating fire-doors, plaster walls, bathrooms and closets. And when he buys another tuner the set will achieve true stereo adulthood. "I love music, and have always been a follower of the B.S.O. And the Owens have even introduced to me the glory that is jazz...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Winthrop Colonial | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

...Hi for Salaam. At 13, Abdie faced a perplexing problem. Living with his widowed mother in neat poverty in the New Medina (a Moslem quarter) of Casablanca, he was told "if you leave, you'll break your mother's heart." But if he stayed in Morocco, where only a fraction of the children get past elementary school, he might end up like his father who was an office messenger until he died. So Abdie found a solution: he persuaded his older brother to let one of his own children live with his mother while he is away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Boy at St. Paul's | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...USIS language center, and when he was officially awarded the scholarship in April, he began taking special lessons with the wife of Consul General Henry H. Ford. Consul Robert Sherwood took him home to play with his two boys, aged 7 and 11. Soon Abdie replaced salaam with "hi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Boy at St. Paul's | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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