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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stripper, "must be tapered rose stems, and her ankles sufficiently narrow so that an ordinary man's hand can completely close around them"), and Harold was disillusioned by what he found. "The girls just aren't as pretty as I'd expected. I don't know whether it was what they went through in the war, or what, but they aren't what they ought to be." Minsky's Burlesque Baedeker in brief: ¶Germany-"The girls are awful; there's no taste to their numbers. They just strip. All those great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURLESQUE: Baedeker | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Soon he begins to tell himself that he wants desperately to marry her. "I don't want to be a middle-aged man keeping a girl somewhere." But he is old enough to know it would never work out. And then again: "Is it fair to have children at my age?" What's more, he is aware that the girl really wants a father more than she wants a lover. Every counsel of experience and common sense requires that he let her go-so he asks her to marry him. And she accepts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Rambler), and no driver can be on the track longer than three hours at a time without relief. All cars must have windshields and wipers. But manufacturers, in their frantic search for speed, devised windshields that flip down at high speeds to avoid extra wind resistance. As they well know, a victory at Le Mans means a difference of millions in a year's sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Circus at Le Mans | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...conflicting claims surrounding the steel negotiations, President Eisenhower last week considered having the Government prepare its own "impartial" statistics for the public's guidance. But the Labor Department and other Government agencies quickly let it be known that they wanted no part of the job. Reason: they know that even statistics on such an apparently simple factor as productivity are open to wide interpretation. No matter what figures the Government settled on, federal economists feel, they would favor one side or the other, add heat rather than light to the debate between management and labor. Said a Government labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 AN HOUR: The Probable Steel Settlement | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...first of his false identities: Anthony Ingolia. Demara was well aware that he had committed a crime, but at first he felt no guilt. Later, he was deeply disturbed by the Pearl Harbor attack. "I wanted to do my part," he has explained. "I like this country, you know. Where else but in America could a man do all I've done? That's what I call freedom!" He left the monastery, joined the U.S. Navy, faked some college credentials and presented himself as a candidate for commission. When the security section started to investigate, Fred started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Superior Sort of Liar | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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