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Word: nixed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gloved that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. does not plan to denounce it. The lone committee naysayer: Arizona's right-wing Republican Barry Goldwater, who called the Kennedy bill "milk toast," vowed to serve up his own hardtack substitute on the Senate floor. EURj[ Philadelphia Lawyer Robert C. Nix, newly elected to fill the unexpired term of a Congressman who resigned, took his seat on the Democratic side of the House, bringing the Congress' Negro membership to four, highest number since Reconstruction days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Retreat & Defeat | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Here's one Republican who says nix on Nixon in '60. My vote goes to promising Jack Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

When the sput goes out of sputnik, what will the Russians have left? Nicks or nix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...week's end, IRS music lovers called a halt. The cry was loud and clear: Nix on the tunes, sad or funny/ Just mail the returns-and don't forget the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The 1040 Blues | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...Given the advantage of the worst Republican Vice President in years," blathers Frank Jeter Jr. in your Sept. 10 Letters column. As a college senior with a profound interest in political science, I want to know just precisely what Jeter Jr. believes is so completely nix about Nixon? Exclusive of Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower, I doubt if anyone in this entire nation knows more about the complex functions of the Federal Government than our young V.P. He has had more solid experience in the past four years, more grass-roots on-the-job training for the presidency than any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1956 | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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