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Word: litters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Augusta the President, bubbling with the Christmas spirit, emerged from the plane carrying Susan. That night, as the family gathered around the tree in the presidential cottage, Ike was still beaming. The room was a pleasant bedlam-grandchildren, toys, noise, and the happy litter of Christmas night. Mamie, with an arm around Ike's shoulders, coaxed him to tell reporters how he felt: "Tell them what you said to me this morning." Ike grinned and complied: "I said I'm not mad at anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: I'm Not Mad at Anybody | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...blow up his wife (Jocelyn Brando) by mistake. Aided by Gloria Grahame. a lady of uncertain virtue who has been disfigured by one of the gangsters, Ford quits the police force and begins a one-man vendetta against Scourby that winds up in the usual litter of dead bodies and mass arrests. Since all the other characters are merely carbon copies from previous cops-and-robbers films, Gloria Grahame runs away with the picture by giving some complexity to her role of a female lush on the make for mink coats and high living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Silent Eyewitnesses. Boston firemen and doctors began arriving on the scene a few minutes after the explosion. As night fell, anxious families crowded against police lines, and litter bearers continued to bring charred bodies down the gangway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Tragedy for a Leading Lady | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...killed in his Rutgers University lab, he gave up and began hunting other antibiotics. By 1943, he found the wonder drug, streptomycin. In 1949. he and his assistants produced neomycin (TIME, April 4, 1949). Actinomycin became a half-forgotten curiosity. Dr. Waksman kept only a sample somewhere in the litter on his desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Half-Forgotten Poison | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...Force took the wraps off the world's largest helicopter, the YH-16 Transporter, built by the Piasecki Helicopter Corp. of Morton, Pa. Weighing more than 15 tons, the 134-ft. copter, powered by 1,650-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines fore & aft, can carry 40 troops, 32 litter patients, or three jeeps, has a top speed of more than 146 m.p.h. and a fuselage, almost 78 ft. long, about as big as that of a Convair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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