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Word: manye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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So Quarterback Johnson, backed by his old coach, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, decided to play Dwight Eisenhower's game. Angering the liberals, Johnson refused to hurl their spending bills full-sized against inevitable vetoes, thus make an irresponsible "record" for next year's campaigns. He sought instead to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Score at Half Time | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Missouri's Symington, Harry Truman's onetime (1947-50) Air Force Secretary, who set up shop as chief critic of Administration defense policy, failed to score a direct hit in many bombing runs on and off the Senate floor. Feeling the balance-the-budget heat, he gradually backed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Score at Half Time | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Crab Grass & Taxes. While far too many of the 16 million U.S. Negroes do live in slums-and cannot find the housing they can afford and need-other thousands are blazing a trail in fast-growing Negro suburbia. Blooming on the outskirts of dozens of cities are hundreds of new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: A Lift in Living | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

In its heyday, the gold-mining town of Deadwood, S.D., nestling in a steep-sided gulch in the Black Hills, was a brawling, ripsnorting oasis of 25,000 people, pungent with gunsmoke and ribaldry. There, in the late 1800s, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane lived-until that mean coward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH DAKOTA: Tales of Deadwood Gulch | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

As the flames spread. Larence County Sheriff Dick McGrath ordered all women and children to evacuate the town. Says Game Warden Kenny Scissons, who helped break up traffic jams: "There weren't many sportsmen in that crowd when it came to seeing who was going to get out first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH DAKOTA: Tales of Deadwood Gulch | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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