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Word: moone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Space Limitations. In Manhattan, the New York Times called attention to a television program "telling of launching of first spaceship carrying passengers to the moon," said it was the beginning of "a dramatic series dealing with minor frustrations imposed by modern daily living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...come by when Harry Belafonte left dramatic school in 1948. He took a job as a messenger and package wrapper in the garment district; nights he used to drop in at a Broadway jazz cellar known as the Royal Roost. He learned a few songs-Star Dust, Blue Moon, Pennies from Heaven-and landed a job. He made some recordings, even composed a quavering ballad titled Lean on Me ("You in your high ivory tower/ Drunk with the sense of your power/ I adore you/ Do I bore you? Come, come le-ean on me"). One night, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...vigorous attack on the earth's own oceans. They cover more than two-thirds of the planet's surface, contain the bulk of its life. But most of their dark bottoms and middle depths are not so well known as the visible surface of the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ocean Frontier | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...reproduction of Goldberg's Summer House: I looked for the summer house, winter house, then just any house, but failing to find one played the game of hidden pictures instead. I was rewarded to find a masked thug, Dick Tracy, okra, and a hound dog baying at the moon while bleeding from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...youth. A 12th century armored knight tilts tragically with a 20th century locomotive that he takes for a dragon. The Shore Line at Sunset is a simple parable on the vagrant power of beauty, but its mermaid heroine is evoked in mythic watercolors: "Her upper body was all moon pearl . . . and her lower body all slithering ancient green-black coins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Here to Infinity | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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