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Word: moons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mahant Raghvir Dass, high priest of Delhi's Hanuman (Monkey God) temple, made a direful prediction: "The 13 months after May 5, 1955, will be inauspicious for marriages." The news had Delhi state in a marital dither last week. Unmarried thousands hurried to get hitched before the full moon in the sign of Vrischika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Marriage Harvest | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...lighter note, Walt Disney's Tomorrowland (ABC, Wed. 7:30 p.m., E.S.T.) made its bow with a lively film-and-animation look at man's attempts to reach the moon via rocket ship. Most authentic touch: the serious, heavily accented explanation of the nation's own German born rocket experts, Willy Ley and Wernher von Braun. To pay a Person-to-Person (CBS Fri. 10:30 p.m., E.S.T.) visit to Internal Revenue Boss T. Coleman Andrews at his modest 4½-room apartment in Parkfairfax, Va., CBS's Ed Murrow unearthed an odd fact: Collector Andrews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...picks up shell after shell during her seaside musings, Author Lindbergh seems to hear in them the murmur of delicate truths-the double-sunrise suggests the early stage of marriage; the oyster, with small shells clinging to its back, symbolizes the middle years of marriage, children, the home; the moon shell reminds her of the importance of solitude. Finally, the paper nautilus recalls the free ebb and flow which she thinks necessary in all good human relationships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murmuring Shells | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...review of Wages of Fear is one of the finest pieces of writing I have read in many moon. I had the misfortune of seeing this picture before reading your review, I must agree that ... its message is "hate America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1955 | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...waxing moon silvered the green hillside fields and sand dunes that make up the Gaza strip - the 6-mile by 30-mile sliver of Palestine crowded with 200,000 Arab refugees which Egypt rules under the armistice. Captain Mahmoud Ahmed Sadek, commander of a 35-man garrison guarding the ancient city of Gaza, had put his chair under a tree beside the trenches along the road. At the outpost up the hill toward the Israeli border, guards heard voices calling out in Arabic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Border Battle | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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