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Word: nixon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your smug claim to omniscience is so damn nauseating. Eisenhower-Nixon's re-election meant that "a new political generation had come of age with promising concepts of how Government ought to be run." I'm happy to be associated with those apostles of error in Government affairs: Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, George Kennan and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...certainly did a wonderful job of cosmetic beautification on Nixon's profile. Are you already grooming him to look like the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...very attractive. In fact, oftentimes they are a down-right bore. So Mr. Merrill has cast aside play-writing convention, and has plopped his 1856 Victorians right into the midst of Czarist Russia (1896)--where people apparently were less set in their ways--and then into the midst of Nixon California (1956) where people apparently are. This is achieved through supernatural power--specifically, the will of the sexy Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn, who has given her Victorian lover-loafer the gift of immortality. We follow him through the three ages into senility, and we learn that loafers are almost...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Immortal Husband | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

...Republican Party should fulfill its debts both to the huge number of Negro voters who supported it this year and to its heritage of Lincoln. Vice President Nixon, as the Senate's presiding officer, and Minority Leader Knowland are able to provide the leadership if the President will not. They can carry enough votes to swamp Majority Leader Johnson if they wish, and, with liberal Democratic support, end the filibuster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Time to Stop Talk | 11/28/1956 | See Source »

...Eisenhower, surrounded by the Eisenhower clan, romped through her 60th birthday party at the White House. She happily browsed through a welter of gifts -cocktail napkins, stockings, a pair of earbobs from her namesake niece Mamie, a lifesize, schoolgirlish portrait of herself from the National Citizens for Ei senhower-Nixon. As messages poured in, Mamie Eisenhower's personal secretary, Mary Jane McCaffree, bragged: "She's getting more mail than the President today!" Asked how she felt about spending another four years in the White House, Mamie, while posing for pictures in the library, said: "I'm feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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