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Word: kula (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salesman Rantz soon owns everything, but finds himself utterly alone. Even Kula, the native girl who had fallen into his arms like a ripe mango, walks out on him. By now, Rantz finds that he has outsmarted himself. In his loneliness he rediscovers that over-Donne island truth: no man is an Hand, intire of itselfe. In his new humility he goes to the other side, finds that the powerless, possessionless exiles are living life as it was before the fall. Everything belongs to everybody; greed, hate and fear are gone with the trade winds, and love is as free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Apr. 18, 1955 | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Continuous Performances. In Detroit, asking police for help, George Van Kula reported that an anonymous prankster had 1) directed to his address two coal trucks, four TV repairmen, two florists, six milkmen, a plumber, a veterinarian, two tow trucks, two exterminators, 2) advertised in the Detroit News that his apartment was for rent, cheap; 3) inserted a want ad stating that Van Kula needed a "dandy man, good wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...KAGH, KARK, KWAK, WZIP, WROK, WOKY), others like Aztec gods (KIXL, KXJK, KXXX), and a few like New Year's Eve (WOOW, WEEI). For the commercially minded, there are KOIN, KASH and KALE. A rundown of Hawaiian stations has the roll of a Polynesian alphabet (KILA, KONA, KIPA, KULA, KANI), and the palm for redundancy goes to Puerto Rico's'monotonous station WWWW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Four-Letter Words | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

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