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Word: homeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweet Smell of Excess. In Chicago, after eight successful burglaries of two candy stores, Wardell Sharpe, 34, was caught on his ninth try, explained that he kept going back because the shops were convenient to his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Personality. Still youthful-looking despite dabs of grey at the temples, slender, amiable Potter Stewart says that his only hobbies are "my home and my family." The family: wife Mary Ann (onetime LIFE researcher), three children aged seven to 13. "We also have a dog named Bingo and an undetermined number of cats," he adds. When colleagues and friends describe Judge Stewart, two words occur again and again: "brilliant" and "unassuming." Of his own appointment to the Supreme Court, Stewart unassumingly said: "In my fondest dreams I never thought that such an honor would come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE YOUNG JUSTICE | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Unsmiling City. All the while, the heat was building up against him at home. The Soviet Union denounced him in the Literary Gazette. A provincial Polish town burned his books. The Warsaw party daily Trybuna Ludu blasted him as a disciple of George Orwell, "that classical master of anti-Communist pamphleteering." Marek Hlasko wrote an answering letter that Trybuna Ludu refused to publish. "It was not I who made Warsaw," said Hlasko bitterly, "that Warsaw that was for so many years a city without a smile; it was not I who made the Warsaw in which people trembled with fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Across the Line | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Ireland. To the Irish Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart: "Ireland is a land of the smile and the tear. Also, alas, what a flood of tears, drowning out the joy and laughter of home and hearth, has poured through when the dyke of temperance has been shattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: THE POPE SPEAKS | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...wonderful source of cash. Stevens now runs syndicates of theatrical angels and archangels, one of which put together $540,000 for this year's ventures alone (his own contribution: $30,000). Stevens is also a director of a company that controls eight important theaters, guaranteeing a home for almost any Stevens show in theater-short Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stage-Struck Shrewdie | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

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