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Word: lustiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title of this biography puts both the author's point of view and his heroine in a nutshell-quite an achievement, considering that Germaine de Staël was probably the largest, loudest, lustiest woman who ever strode the pages of French history. Riding the great waves of social upheaval during and after the Revolution, Germaine exhausted her lovers, exasperated her friends, maddened her rulers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Circe | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...evangelists surpassed the zeal of John Wesley and his disciples when they officially founded "The Yearly Corporation of the People Called Methodists" in 1784. Last week the zeal seemed to be guttering low. As 650 delegates met in a heat wave at Newcastle-on-Tyne, even their lustiest singing of The Living Church ("And are we yet alive") could not hide their mood. By the delegates' own gloomy account, the Methodist Church in Britain is sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Deep Malady | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...Toronto Star, Canada's biggest, lustiest and most profitable daily, the highest accolade a newsman could receive was a penciled "OK-H.C.H." on his copy. The initials were those of President Harry Comfort Hindmarsh, 69, long known as Canada's toughest newspaper boss. Many Canadian newsmen even insisted that a reporter who had not been hired and fired by Harry Hindmarsh was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Last Showdown | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...laborers, goods worth $12 billion. But in 1950 the Reds decided that instead of taking out what little was left, they would let East German)-build up again and then drain off the profits. This experiment has paid off handsomely for Moscow, made East Germany the Kremlin's lustiest satellite. Last week East German production had increased to such a level that the government announced it will cut the work week from 48 hours to 45, which might also help pacify any rebellious workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: East German Recovery | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...Trastevere put on the best and bloodiest shows of all, just as today Trastevere's tough soccer players are the best in all Italy. Many another superlative can be applied to Trastevere; its poverty is the deepest, its streets and alleyways the most crowded, its feasting the lustiest in all of Rome. It was in Trastevere that Raphael himself found the baker's full-bosomed daughter whose sensuous charms he bequeathed to the world in the painting La Fornarina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Bell -for Don Cesare | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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