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Word: jaguars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold, drizzly English country morning last week, Mike remembered that he had some urgent business appointments 40 miles away in London. Waving goodbye to his mother at the garage, he hopped into his souped-up green Jaguar and whooshed down the highway like a man without a minute to spare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Road from Farnham | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...have no known gods, but they fear and venerate the jaguar and live in a world infested with evil spirits. Some of these can be bested in rather crude ways. An agent of the Indian Protection Service saw two Xetá women taking turns stamping on the head of a prostrate male. They explained that they were driving out a spirit that was the cause of a headache. After about 20 minutes of this treatment, the patient got up feeling fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Living Stone Age | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Last week the product of Tobias' threes-months' stay in the Amarakaire village was on view at Manhattan's Peridot Gallery. In large, freely stroked oils, brown-banged, stark naked warriors tumbled in play; the camouflaged mask of a jaguar peered from a matted jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Call of the Jungle | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...York-born author worked in one too). There is flighty April Morrison a little breath of bedspring from Colorado, done in by a dastard who tools a white Jaguar. He refuses to marry her, but-Author Jaffe admits New York men are not wholly vile-he recognizes that there are some occasions on which a Jaguar is not proper. He shows up to escort April to the New Jersey abortionist in a rented, chauffeured Cadillac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Sad Young Women | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...congregants). Promptly turning the pulpit into a platform, he set about denouncing political rivals, rarely failing to kiss his female congregant-constituents as they filed past after his spellbinding sermons. Elected to the House in 1944, he kept piling up fame and fortune, acquired a powder-blue Mark V Jaguar, a destroyer-grey Nash-Healey, two boats, three posh homes. 20 winter suits, and, in lawful succession, two wives. Wife No. 1 was a trim Cotton Club chorine, whom Powell divorced in 1945 ("I fear I just outgrew her"). Wife No. 2 is Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, who spends most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Mesmerist | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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