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Word: matings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Desert Island. What had persuaded such able seamen as Miller and his mate, a salt-encrusted American Indian named Chuck Simpson, to abandon a still sound ship in the open sea and entrust their fates and those of their passengers to the doubtful security of an outboard dinghy and three flimsy life rafts? An island newspaper stoutly proclaimed that pirates had seized the passengers and scuttled the ship for the sake of a thousand pounds reputedly resting in the wallet of one of the passengers. But what pirate worth his salt would jettison a ship as fine as the Joyita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH SEAS: Silent Mystery | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...horse, Auteroche spared him from the butcher's pistol, had him gelded instead. "The operation," he says proudly, "was a complete success. Fabliau is now so gentle he's a household pet. For company we've let him have a cow as a stable mate. I think the cow has a homey, comforting influence that makes him happy." Last week, Fabliau trotted off to Chantilly to begin training. "Ah, my little eunuch," said M. Auteroche, "how you have suffered. But you will be a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Butcher's Bets | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...book itself deals principally with the sex lives of two couples--film director Charles Francis Eitel and his bed-mate Elena Esposito; and movie star Lulu Meyers and her lover Sergius O'Shaugnessy, the narrator of the book. But interwoven into the story are Marion Faye--a pimp at 21; a homosexual movie actor; and a number of other perverted characters. In Mailer's moral code, however, these latter characters are destroyed, for only those who can find companions of the opposite sex are favored by the author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norman Mailer's Theory of Life: No Possible Happiness Without Sex | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

Would he accept Estes Kefauver as his running mate? "Well. I would say this about Senator Kefauver or anyone else: that, after all, the national convention has to make that decision. As far as I am concerned, I think he is eminently qualified for exalted public office, indeed he already holds one, and that isn't to say that there are no others likewise qualified, equally qualified, and also there is a question of whether he would be available for such an office, and I gather from what I have heard that he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Not for the Exercise | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...Absolve. Back in the cabin, Padre Carlos Gonzalez Salas, 34, of Tampico, Mexico, a tall, athletic-looking priest with the skin of an Indian, was chatting with his seat mate and looking out of the window. Gradually he began to realize that something was wrong. When a crew member explained the situation to the passengers, Padre Gonzalez Salas clutched his scapular and said a prayer. "I began," he said later, "to experience a great feeling of anxiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Promise | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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