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Word: illing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little to dramatize beyond a genially hard-hitting personality that best conveys itself in the first person, and a pungent egalitarian philosophy of life that seems blatantly pious when acted out. Adapters Lawrence and Lee must, in fact, swell out into two hours of theater what is not only ill suited to the theater, but what even in book form comes off best in ten-minute draughts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Nov. 30, 1959 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Phillip E. Johnson '61 of Leverett House and Aurora, Ill., has been elected manager of the University Band for the 1959-60 season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Names Officers | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

STEPHANIE ORFALI Zion, Ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...have sexual relations up to age 70 - and some of them into their late 80s. The frequency showed a wide range, from four or five times a year to three times a week, with higher frequencies in the lower socio-economic classes. Main reason for discontinuance of marital relations: ill health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Age Cannot Wither . . . | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...advertising ethics, the border between old-fashioned puffery and outright deception is sometimes ill-defined. For a while admen debated on what side of the boundary belonged the blatant ads for a weight remover named Regimen (sample spot: "Lose six pounds in three days-ten pounds in a week-or your money back!"). Regimen's hard-driving maker, Drug Research Corp.. helped them to decide. It anted up more than $1,500,000 for TV ads last year (and also spent $443,028 on newspaper ads, $189,837 on magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Diet for Commercials | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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