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Word: nimbuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most passionately engaged in the debate are Israel's nimbus-haired Premier David Ben-Gurion, 74, and three key Jewish organizations. The three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: What Is a Jew? | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

When Adon Taft goes to church, someone is forever mistaking him for the minister. The error is understandable because Taft looks and acts like one. He is tall, deacon-grave, bespectacled, softspoken; above his generous brow, from which the hair is steadily receding, there sometimes seems to hover a nimbus of reflected light. He neither smokes nor drinks, goes to church 200 times a year, is married to a church organist, and reads the Scriptures to his two young daughters. Taft's calling is not spiritual, except at one remove. Adon Taft, 34, is a working newsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pastorate of the Press | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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