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Word: matings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deft and deadly, Australia's young (21) Ken Rosewall ran out the match 6-3, 3-6, 6-8, 6-3, 7-5. While Vic ungreixously stopped his ears to drown out the cheers for the victor, Rosewall walked off to wait for his Sydney neighbor and tennis mate to overpower Rhodes Scholar Ham Richardson of Westfield, N.J., 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4, and assure Wimbledon's first all-Australian final ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon Winners | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Navy enlisted man, dredges up a Neanderthal boatswain's mate named Farragut Jones who speaks basic English, all of it four-letter unprintables. Marblehead copes with a case of "ultimate fraternization" or "love-by that I mean plain, raw, unadulterated sex" between a yeoman and a nurse. He sits out an enlisted men's "mutiny" (they want 14 bottles of beer once a week, rather than two a day) and a correspondent's revolt (he wants his sheets changed every day), but almost founders under the first news of the atomic bomb ("That Air Force propaganda mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Flannel War | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...Democratic State Central Commit tee, firmly under Clements' control even before last week's voting, is expected to name a Clements man as his running mate in Kentucky's other 1956 senatorial contest-for the unexpired term of the late Alben Barkley. About the only consolation left Happy Chandler was that under state law, he can appoint someone to serve in the Barkley post until the November general election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who Loves Happy Now? | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...only way to be sure that a bull is clean is to mate him to at least 15 carrier cows and see if his calves are ever dwarfs. This takes a long time, so the cattle experts are trying hard to find some other system. Dr. Paul Wallace Gregory of the University of California at Davis has invented a "profilometer," an instrument to detect the slight bump on a bull's forehead which shows that he may be a carrier. Sometimes X rays are used to look for the "crumpled" vertebrae that carriers sometimes have. Chief obstacle to cleaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sinister Gene | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...Ikhi), had died while campaigning (TIME, May 14). His only other challenger, ex-Communist Cho Bong Am, had gone into hiding, claiming to have received threats of assassination. Of six candidates for the vice presidency, all had professed support of Rhee except John M. Chang, Shinicky's running mate. Rhee had confidently given his official backing to Lee Ki Poong, speaker of the National Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Revolt at the Polls | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

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