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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with the college generation of the first quarter-century was that it was lost, the trouble with ours is that it isn't. Today's young men and women seem intent, if upon anything at all, on preserving their air of absolute, rightness, polish, and balance, of belonging to the corporate body of the Shoe and the Sophisticated...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: The Anonymous Generation | 6/12/1957 | See Source »

...bloc of 75 Commons seats, the Liberals can ride out the Tory gains elsewhere. Last week the 75-year-old Prime Minister moved spryly through the Quebec countryside, battening down the Liberals' holdings with talks in flawless French. "I will tell you a secret, which really isn't a secret, concerning the method which has helped me to succeed," confided St. Laurent. "I have always believed that the concept of père de famille is the best one to apply in public administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Election Prospects | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...hoped. Said one official: "A terrible mistake. This is the kind of thing that makes criticism suspect. Any time he pans a show on NBC or ABC, somebody is sure to say: 'What do you expect, he's on the CBS payroll.' And bending over backward isn't a proper posture for a critic either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dual Role | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...point, referring to Chief Parker, Interviewer Wallace said: "Well, Mickey, you're a reformed thief just as he's a reformed thief. Isn't it the pot calling the kettle black?" But at the end of the interview, after wishing him long life and happiness, Mike announced solemnly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Important Story | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...tantamount to fomenting rebellion. The docile natives of Ooroo, now renamed "R," try hard to talk the new gibberish. A by tells a girl she sings like a chir of riles, and gets slapped. Lads studying Igic at schl recite: "Mist is always mist, but what is mist isn't always mist.'' Peple can n Inger tell rot from root. Babies make as much sense as their fathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Owning the Jlly Rger | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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