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Word: muffler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning Mikoyan, wearing a red, white and blue muffler against the 20° Washington weather, stepped out of a Soviet embassy Cadillac at the White House. Said John Foster Dulles: "We've got some of your Moscow weather." Dulles introduced Mikoyan to President Eisenhower, and for an hour and 45 minutes the three discussed Germany, world trade and disarmament. As in previous conferences, neither side budged. Mikoyan's whole approach, said a White House aide later, was "the same old cracked record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Down to Hard Cases | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...ANTISMOG MUFFLER, developed by Inventor Eugene J. Houdry and Pennsylvania's Oxy-Catalyst, Inc., chemically removed up to 90% of auto's unburned exhaust gases in road tests by General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...With a muffler round my throat, shielding myself with the palm of my hand, I call out in the courtyard: "What millennium are we celebrating here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pasternak's Retreat | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...West Palm Beach, Fla., aging (49) Glamour Boy Porfirio Rubirosa, a sometime auto racer, was caught by police with his Ferrari down, charged with speeding, making a wrong turn and driving with an ear-ruffling muffler, haled to headquarters, where he paid a $25 fine. Huffed Rubi: "I was only trying to reach the bank in a hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

False Alarm. In Wethersfield, Conn., William H. Coney was fined $6 for having a noisy muffler, despite his protest that it kept him from falling asleep while driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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