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Word: lesters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening progressed the cold outside and the tempo inside increased apace. The Tiger Inn had free Bud-weiser on tap, Lester Lanin played for dancing at Cottage, and somebody from Rutgers claimed that another club had liquor downstairs that "just won't quit...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Chilled Crimson Intruders Find Little Cheer at Princeton Clubs | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

...Lester Lanin gave his monogrammed beanies to appreciative dates as he played, but one Clubman remarked that very few members were dancing because "even when you make it a closed party and hire a bouncer, all sorts of riff-raff get in." For one reason or another there wasn't the spirit that the visitor remembered from New Haven last fall...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Chilled Crimson Intruders Find Little Cheer at Princeton Clubs | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

...what Britain was doing, decided not to condemn Britain and France publicly. But it was miffed by having been kept in the dark by Eden. Not until two days after Israel's invasion did Canada suspend a scheduled delivery of 24 Sabre jets to Israel. External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson called the Anglo-French decision to intervene in Egypt "a most unhappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Anger & Dismay | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...been a champion of civil liberties, a critic of Anglophiles who would keep Canada more dependent on Britain ("They want us to ape the English in everything from accent to aristocracy"), and a staunch friend of the U.S. (he once accused Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson of "adolescence" for carping about U.S. foreign policy). Protestant Smith has strong backing in Roman Catholic Quebec because of his support of religious teaching in schools and the fact that he speaks French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Dark Horse | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Unfair Advantage. In Springfield, Ill., Lester D. Plummer asked a judge to annul his month-old marriage on the ground that he was so "emotionally upset" by the divorce from his first wife that he didn't know what he was doing when he remarried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 30, 1956 | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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