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Word: monkeying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still Life. In San Francisco, U.S. Revenooer Jack Courtney investigated a cache of illegal moonshine in Chinatown, emptied three 5-gal. pickle jars of the grog down a drain, found that the dregs consisted of two chickens, two hawks and a monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Psychologists at the University of Wisconsin prove that they can measure Mother Love -provided one of the lovers is a baby rhesus monkey and the "mother" (any object at all) is soft and cuddly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Victor Borge pursues an elusive tulip through this Scandinavian travelogue, and, once arrived at his Danish castle, settles down to some hilarious monkey business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...modeling, Picasso sculpts by a third method: combining. He will make a bull's head out of a bicycle seat, with handle bars for horns, or a pregnant goat from a palm branch (for the back), a wicker basket (for the belly) and flowerpot udders, or a monstrous monkey, using a toy automobile for a head, a beach ball for a body. Cast in bronze, the results are more invigorating than inspiring, but they can help anyone to see better into the physical world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maker of Images | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Lecture. Under the cool slopes of Monduli Mountain last week Edward Mbarnoti, dressed in a ceremonial blue robe and a monkey-hair headdress, officially received the chieftainship from Tanganyika Governor Sir Richard Turnbull, and resplendent British uniforms mingled with the Dogpatch garb of spear-carrying Masai elders and tribesmen. Edward's coronation speech was a simple statement of Masai needs: legal recourse against farmers squatting on Masai lands, improved water facilities, a share in the profits of the tourist-frequented game reserves given up by the Masai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TANGANYIKA: The Masai Take a Chief | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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