Search Details

Word: lone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...pitiful plight, but forgets that it was a woman who lost Mark Antony the world, laid old Troy in ashes, clipped Samson's mighty locks, and has been clipping men ever since. She says "woman's uplift has barely begun." Speaking as a lone man who grew up in a family of aunts, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, mothers, and now a wife and daughter, I can tell De Beauvoir that woman's uplift has been going on for a long time. BILL STALNAKER Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...with "my mistress, sugar," he has fitted out a penthouse over his office. Even when he travels, as he often does, to Europe, the U.S. and South America, Lobo deals in sugar day & night by international telephone. "This business needs me," he says. His name in Spanish means "wolf"-"lone wolf," he explains with relish. Evenings, he says, when the last of the day's 500 cables have been answered, "I like to walk alone from my office to the harbor. There I can sit on the edge of a pier, gaze at the lapping waves, and think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Emperor of Sugar | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...Saturday Evening Post announced that it had bought the partial memoirs of Charles A. Lindbergh, in which the notoriously shy "Lone Eagle" tells the story of his life up to and including the transatlantic flight which made him famous. Title of the story: "The Spirit of St. Louis." Reported price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...individual Crimson performances, Jan Jersten, Steve Chandler, and Walton Rawis each won one out of three bouts in the foil. In the epee, George McNair and Los Scherer also had one out of three records, Paul Forand won his lone bout, and Phil Erard dropped two matches to his Army opponent. In saber competition, Harry Ziel and Bob McConaughy each took two out of three, while Bob Marsetta suffered three losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Defeats Fencers 17-10 In Crimson's Opening March | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...lone addition to the schedule is Princeton, which usually musters a pretty strong wrestling squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers' Record Endangered; Squash Team May Go Undefeated | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

Previous | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | Next