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Word: macs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original when I was a sublieutenant in His Majesty's army in 1917, and I can tell you that this production is even better." With that, he seated himself at a piano and ripped off half a dozen numbers from the show, and then tossed in Mac Namara's Band. Leaving the stage, he sat down to watch and loudly cheer Leave It to Jane - for the 30th time this year. All through the show there were tears in his eyes and bravos on his lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFF BROADWAY: Leave It to Perky | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Jennifer, the flagellant with fluorescent molars, is a new character. But her leering mother-in-law, who crouches by a hot-air register listening to the merry whack of belt on flesh, is an old friend from the first novel. So is Heroine Allison Mac-Kenzie, the girl author who writes by day and wrongs by night. Like Author Metalious, she produces a bestseller about a meretricious little New England town, and is all but drummed out of it by indignant neighbors. Her fatherly old publisher comforts her in the best way he knows how, and he certainly knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son of P.P. | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...another Tory M.P. At 1:25 a.m., long after the Laborites at their glum command post across the square had conceded defeat in Britain's 1959 general election, an elegant, grey-haired figure in evening dress stepped from a sedan to a surge of Tory cheers. "Well done, Mac," shouted voices. "You did it!" The tall, patrician-looking man paused for a moment, his handsome wife in blue evening gown at his side. "It has gone off rather well," murmured Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Art of the Practical | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...spite of these dangers, however, it appears that Macmillan, "Super Mac" as he has been called recently, will reopen Parliament with a majority of about sixty-five...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Decision in Britain | 10/3/1959 | See Source »

...Washington and the Pentagon hated to see him go. Said New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges: "Wilfred McNeil literally has saved the taxpayers of America billions of dollars. And yet comparatively few people in this country have ever heard of him." Wrote President Eisenhower last week to "Dear Mac": "All Americ?, joins me in saying to you, well done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Nickel Counter | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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