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Word: mississippis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carl Creel, 26, a mechanic six weeks out of the Army, was jouncing along a Mississippi highway one day when he hit a hole in the road and his car flipped over on its side. Creel's left arm, part way through the window, was trapped between the car and the paving. He could think of only one thing to do, and he did it. As Creel told his own case history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fear & Shock | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...made his first hit in the big time, and his family the Friedmans of Circleville, Ohio, finally learned what their wandering boy was up to. And it was outside Rector's one night that Ted acquired his famous topper in a crap game with a cabbie named Mississippi. It has been part of his act ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hands, Hat & Cane | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...refuses to honor the dignity and perceptivity of another, for whatever reason, be he a Mississippi storekeeper or TIME Magazine, emanates a certain "sordidness" which should be labeled and condemned. (MRS.) JUNE CALDWELL Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Good Man, by Jefferson Young. The story of a Mississippi Negro who decides to paint his house, and white at that (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Good Man, by Jefferson Young. The story of a Mississippi Negro who decides to paint his house, and white at that (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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