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Word: mosses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abolish the moss-backed longevity system under which a sway-backed corporal with 24 years of service can collect more on payday than an ambitious, youthful master sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Patchwork Raises | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...fine style. Coming into the last lap, less than 25 miles from the finish, he was running third. He could not have known, but the Ferrari team had the race won. His grizzled teammate, Piero Taruffi, 50, had already finished in first place. Far back, Britain's Stirling Moss, driving a Maserati, the Ferrari's only strong competitor, had lost his brakes and almost crashed in a roadside cemetery. The other Maserati competitors had also either folded or faded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thirst for Thrills | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Minister of Internal Affairs. In Madison, Wis., Dr. Leonard W. Moss of Wayne University told the Anthropological Society that men in the Italian town of Bagnoli del Trigno, after listening to the adventures of countrymen returning from working in the U.S., now call their wives "La Bossa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...wanted him to send exactly 62 copies of his letter -24 for the ICC Secretary, 25 for the Washington lawyer representing the railroads interested in the rate increase and one to each of the ICC's 13 regional offices. Complaining to the U.S. Senate about the moss-grown ICC's apparent prejudice against the duplicating machine, Delaware's bureaucracy-baiting Republican Senator John Williams last week found the right' word for the 62-copy policy: "Ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Don't Write, Yell! | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...touched off at 10 p.m. to signal the end of the race, the exquisitely tooled Maserati was winner by two laps. In twelve hours of relatively easy driving, the winner had covered a record 1,024.4 miles. Second: a lighter (2.9 liters) Maserati driven by England's Stirling Moss and American Expatriate Harry Schell. The D-Jag was third. Index of Performance prize for the car that exceeds theoretical standards by the largest amount went to a perky, eighth-place, 1.5-liter Porsche Spyder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fireworks for Fangio | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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