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Word: moons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the upsurge in electronic toys, manufacturers are only beginning the new age. For next year, one company promised to have a junior-size Univac ready. And the time seemed not far off when every little boy and girl could climb aboard a $1.98 rocket for the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Electronic Age of Toys | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...rendition of "Honeysuckle Rose" is a classic, with only a Bass accompanying her for half the song. Bregman's other arrangements are run-of-the-mile, but it is nonetheless a pleasure to hear Anita take off on fine tunes like "I Can't Get Started" and "No Moon At All." (Verve...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: O'Day, Conner, and London | 11/27/1956 | See Source »

...loser's traditional speech. J. Howard McGrath, Kefauver adviser and onetime Democratic National chairman, insisted that his man had emerged from the pasting unscarred, unscathed, even enhanced. "How about 1960?" some of the crowd yelled. Kefauver's sagging face lit up and split into a crescent-moon grin. "I'm just thinking of relaxing for the next two or three days," he said. "Everybody in the family's got bicycles, and we're just going bicycling for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Just Can't Stop | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...second-rate work. It is a rare operatic phenomenon in that the libretto is not much sillier than the score. The story takes place during the Roman occupation of Gaul. Norma is a Druid high priestess, who, though pledged to virginity in the service of the moon goddess, has borne two children of the Roman proconsul. When he casts her off for another Druid priestess, Norma arouses the local underground against him. But in the end she repents, publicly confesses her sins and goes to the fire with her lover, who, for obscure reasons, is ready to die with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Champ | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...baffling disease-it may subside spontaneously after a few months. Victims of other forms of rheumatism, some of whom thought rheumatism was all one disease, were disappointed when the hormones proved of little use to them. In some patients they produced swift and undesirable side effects (high blood pressure, moon face, beards on women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Those Aching Joints | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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