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Word: lamentations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poor old Joe David Brown! His querulous and high-minded lament from Sweden should gain him a quick return ticket to the good old U.S.A. where sin and sex are packaged more temptingly in well-stacked pinup girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Apathetic Country. The Bishop's Bonfire, he said, "is a play about the ferocious chastity of the Irish, a lament for the condition of Ireland, which is an apathetic country now, losing all her energy, enthusiasm and resolution. The country is just drifting, with the lowest birth and marriage rates in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Dublin, Mar. 14, 1955 | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...same poll, Union Committee tabulations indicated that freshman would use extended bears in Lament most often on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night, has the Committee has not tabulated the order of preference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Find Study Facilities Inadequate | 2/23/1955 | See Source »

Sophiatowners watched, knowing that soon it would be their turn, too. And as they watched, they sang a new lament, known as the Toby Street Blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Toby Street Blues | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Italy and South Africa were unhappy about subsidized export of U.S. oranges; Thailand and Burma objected to rice dumping. From. Spain came a lament about the distribution of free American milk to poor children. Spanish dairymen insisted that the U.S. largesse was having a ruinous effect on their business; milk purchases in Valencia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Bitter Butter | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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