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Word: make (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cadets whipped themselves up to such a pitch that they swarmed onto the practice field to shout encouragement at their startled team. For the first time, the new U.S. Air Force Academy was playing the U.S. Military Academy, and right from the start both schools were determined to make the series as memorable as Army-Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Start of a Tradition | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...fully, they stitched together the ends of the main artery, then the main vein. Quickly taking circulation from the trunk, the leg turned from a deathly grey to a normal pink. Then the surgeons cut away the crushed muscle and skin, shortened the bone by two inches (to make up for the lost tissue), sewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Try for a Miracle | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

From the very first day, life is a series of shocks: the shock of birth itself, of hunger, of weaning, of not having one's own way. Most humans make adjustments to these painful shocks. Yet many are overwhelmed by them, and so they attempt to turn the pain itself into pleasure, i.e., they become psychic masochists. At the same time, humans learn in the nursery to fear the woman: it is she who takes the nipple out of the infant's mouth, she who disciplines him. Many persons grow up to run away from the fearful mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Strange World | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Automatic Developer. On signal from the earth, both cameras began taking pictures on 35-mm. film that had been carefully protected from the fogging effect of cosmic rays. Exposures were automatically varied from frame to frame to make sure of some negatives with good contrast. As soon as the film was shot, it passed into a developing and fixing device that was specially designed to function properly under conditions of weightlessness. After being dried, the film went into a case to wait for transmission to earth. Some of this operation was automatic, but marks on the moving film, the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Moon's Far Side | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Having demonstrated the various advantages of adultery, the film goes on to make it clear to the movie audience that sexual dalliance between unmarried adolescents is really quite all right, provided they are in love and are willing to confess all to their parents and stand up in church when the girl gets pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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