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Word: jibes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock under a trust agreement. Once Ferger flew to see him in Chicago, and at the end of their conference said he was going directly to catch his plane back to Cincinnati. Stuart later checked Ferger's expense account for the trip, found that it did not jibe with Ferger's account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Enquirer on the Block | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...performed all too seldom. The performance last night was fully worthy of the vehicle, and showed a skillful blend of enthusiasm and musical excellence. Bruce MacDonald was a charming Point, whose pleasantly intimate manner with the audience, especially in such numbers as "I've jest and Jibe," was thoroughly captivating. Playing a tricky "tragic clown" role, he managed to convey a bit of pathos without spoiling the essentially comic nature of the part...

Author: By Gilligan SCHWENK Pfaff, | Title: Yeomen of the Guard | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

Khrushchev's statement did not quite jibe with the announcement, .made the same week in satellite Czechoslovakia, that 34,000 men will shortly be dropped from the Czech Red army. But Communist delegations from Czechoslovakia. Albania, Bulgaria. Hungary. East Germany, Mongolia, Korea, Poland, listening intently to Khrushchev's words, found a message there. The applause, according to Tass, was "tempestuous and prolonged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Gravitational Pull | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...Half a mile from the finish in the last of nine races for the Syce Cup and the Long Island Sound women's sailing championship, pint-sized Toni Monetti, 18, who won the midget title only five years ago, messed up a jibe and lost most of the lead she had built up on the first leg. Without wasting a moment, the Skidmore College sophomore went forward to untangle the sheets of her Lightning's big spinnaker. She finished in time to sail home third, earning just enough points to bring the Syce Cup home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...great fear was art that did not honestly jibe with its model, life. "Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and, I think, Japheth. The only thing Ham noted was that his father was a drunkard; he completely lost sight of the fact that Noah was a genius, that he built an ark and saved the world. Writing people ought not imitate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power of Negative Thinking | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

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