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Word: kegs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jazz bomb. He, for his part, is expected to make sure the coals are right for picking up the tab. Sometimes, of course, the heap plays sour, but more often the music is really served-served like a cloud, in fact. And if the sinatra is a keg, every number is liable to get real oblique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK 'N1 ROLL: Real Schräg | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...from the Laplanders of the north, Sculptor Hjorth won admiration. As the central teakwood altarpiece for Jukkasjarvi Church, Hjorth carved a looming Christ with heavy Gauguin overtones, surrounded by the Far North's flowers. On the left stands Laestadius preaching hellfire, while one Lapp smashes a keg of aquavit, another returns a stolen reindeer. On the right, Laestadius begs mercy from a Virgin Mary, while a Lapp lay priest, Raatma the Mild, listens. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest daily, called it "a masterpiece . . . everything is dissolved and recreated in the same breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Sculpture for the Lapps | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...Then we all went down to the Harvard ski cabin and had a big party which lasted all night long. We had half a keg of beer to drink up. We awarded the trophies then, too. We have three trophies--the outhouse trophy, the garbage trophy, and the real good trophy. The first two are roadsigns--one stays in our garbage dump and one over our outhouse. The third is a nice silver cup....But the Outing Club forgot to bring...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 4/26/1958 | See Source »

...against Japan, or the U.S. would "proceed to whatever length necessary." Later Japan began to thrash Russia. T.R., determined to balance the power of Japan, moved in secrecy and with great skill through intermediaries in Europe to signify a U.S. desire to mediate, and to douse the world powder keg altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Turning Point | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...spokesman, the whole cast will speak with "a soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's Pulitzer Prizewinning script. Nobody will wear a derby. Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will fall on those who especially relished a Babylon that looked like a New Orleans nightclub or a celestial throne that resembled a Negro lawyer's office in a Louisiana town. Said the spokesman: "There has been special emphasis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: New Pastures | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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