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Word: misters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control over his faction-ridden Liberal Democratic Party was shaky and his popularity with Japan's masses at an alltime low. Last week his control over his cohorts was clear and undisputed, and his stock with the public soaring. "Today," said a Western diplomat, "Kishi is Mister Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Mister Japan | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...heart of his own 20-man Texas delegation. The pro-Ike mail from home was building up tremendous pressure, and much as they hated to leave their old leader, many Texans were thinking of defection. Their dilemma was compounded by another Texan, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who warned Mister Sam that for Texans to vote for anything less than the toughest possible labor bill would ruin them back home. Inevitably, word filtered out, and one by one the Texans made their decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Great Labor Debate | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...jazz quartet (quickly convertible to a bongo-congo Latin quintet with the addition of a crack drummer named "Mongo"). Says Owner Guido: "We give the customers good jazz. The musicians we don't bother. We never walked around with big cigars and said, 'I'm Mister Black Hawk and won't you sit at my table, musician?' They can look right across the room when they play and see me at the bar and know the boss is working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Success in a Sewer | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...grown cool, the Capitol dome began to sound like a hive of angry bees. "Mr. Butler should resign," cried South Carolina's William Jennings Bryan Dorn. "He evidently thinks all of the thinking and planning of the Democratic Party should be done by himself and his liberal gang." Mister Sam was a man of few words: "We'll just let Mr. Butler stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Turning the Flank | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...like you," Kozlov boomed a laugh. He smiled when he called Electrical Workers' Union Boss James Carey a "tradeunion bureaucrat." Introduced to little (5 ft. 10 in.) House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Kozlov observed that Rayburn's opposite number in the Soviet Union is a lot taller. Replied Mister Sam dryly: "I'm kind of like Stalin-they sawed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Kremlin Man | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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