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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been able to retort to Knowland's right-to-work labor cry with his own recession-slanted back-to-work demands, California is now moving toward economic resurgence. More than that, Knowland's labor ideas, plainly stated and clearly understood, seem much more appealing in the light of a potentially dangerous West Coast strike by the corrupt Teamsters Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just Plain Pat | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...their heads together over the problem of where the cadets would place their caps during supper (solution: on extra tables and under chairs). And the Roman Catholic chaplain was hunting for the culprit who installed a pingpong table in his temporary chapel. "It's organized confusion," moaned one light colonel. "And that's the worst kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Home of the Doolies | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...estate, oil) Bus Mosbacher is only 36, but he has matched tacks and tactics with Shields for a decade-mostly in the hard-sailing International class and dinghies-on the waters of Long Island Sound. A sailor since childhood, Mosbacher is famed for his starts and his skill with light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hail Columbia! | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...conference is doing the same unwrapping job for controlled nuclear fusion of light elements, the great power hope of the future. The U.S., Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monster Conference | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...display last week, Avery's sudden end-of-the-summer spurt made a glowing show. Hot Moon hung in the August sky like a ball of orange light that cast an orange sheen over the magenta sea; Sail shows a ghostly boat slipping silently through a sea of rapid blue and white strokes. "When people ask me how long it took," Avery explained. "I say 30 years. That's how long the preparation took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seaside Painting | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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