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Word: jezebels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years that they have had their own nation, the Jews have been governed by only two women-Jezebel's daughter Athalia, who ruled Judea from 842 B.C. to 836 B.C., and Queen Salome Alexandra, who succeeded to the throne after the death of her husband in 76 B.C. Last week in Israel a third woman took over, but for the first two days not even members of the Cabinet knew it. Finally, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, 61, rose in the Cabinet to inform her colleagues that Premier David Ben-Gurion, 72, had set sail for a much-needed vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: First Lady | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...admirable is Actress Carolyn Jones, who is required to deliver most of the old chestnuts ("Put your money where your mouths are"), but manages to give moviegoers one of the funniest, freakiest, most cussedly appealing heroines since Bette Davis, whom she strongly suggests, played the down-South tart in Jezebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Roger I. Lee, 75, past president of the A.M.A., propounded the happy thought that a fat man loves all the world. Wrote the portly doctor, whose own weight is "top secret" (estimate: over 275 Ibs.): "I do not mind being jumped upon by some hideous . . . painted Jezebel who shrilly proclaims that her weight is perfect and who looks upon my rotund figure with abhorrence . . . What one can see of her under the .mask of chemical cosmetics seems muddy . . . Her skin is wrinkled . . . neck is unsightly and flabby . . . hips big in contrast to skinny toothpick legs . . . She has to take Epsom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...Sins of Jezebel (Lippert Productions), with Paulette Goddard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Trend | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...Siren Jezebel (Allied Artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Trend | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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