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Word: motel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lakers checked in at Charleston's Kanawha Hotel. The hotel clerk refused to give a room to Baylor and his Negro teammates, Ed Fleming and Alex ("Boo") Ellis. Angrily, the whole squad stalked out, registered at a Negro motel. "They were not even polite at the hotel,'' Baylor fumed. "They told us we couldn't even get in a halfway decent restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Southern Hospitality | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...Howard Johnson roadside restaurant. Mikoyan breakfasted at the counter (tomato juice, toast, marmalade, coffee), and, as the Soviet Union's chief dispenser of consumer goods, studied with fascination a popcorn maker, gum and cigarette vending machines. At Perryville, Md., the cars stopped at the pink stucco Oakcrest Motel. Through an interpreter Mikoyan braced the astonished owner: Did he make a profit? ("That's what we're in business for.") Why did the units have two doors? ("One's a storm door.") Did his family help? ("Just my wife and I.") Did he "have servants, cleaners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Arrival in the Dark | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...their stoves." Harriet Bunker's crusade cost an extra $250,000, probably delayed the completion of the building 200 days. But it was worth it. "This is a real landmark," said one Indian last week. He was talking not about the jewel-like chancery itself, but the motel-like adjoining servants' quarters, the like of which New Delhi has never seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: American Taj | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...date and hour marked on his calendar right now). Four years ago he bought a cattle ranch on Florida's west coast to prepare for his retirement. There, on 1,820 acres, he has set up "decentralization on the farm," intends to build a "Cordiner Motel" some distance away for his visiting daughters and their families, under his longtime policy of "decentralization in the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: The Powerhouse | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...understood that the University favored the motel land as the site of a proposed Cambridge-Harvard parking facility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan to Build 'Motel on Stilts' Over Brattle Lot | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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