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Word: nosedives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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On a rainswept runway at Toronto's Downsview Airport, a stubby little blue-grey plane took off after a 500-ft. run and nosed upward into a steep climb. It turned back over the field at 170 m.p.h., did tight circles and vertical banks. Then the pilot cut his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Bush Pilot's Ideal | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Spike Jones; Victor). One of 30 current recordings of the song which was No. i on the small-fry hit parade last year. Jones packs away his customary fireworks, turns out a good disc for kids.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Organized Chaos. Though not the highest-paid, George Price is probably the funniest cartoonist alive. With a line as lean as Arno's is broad, Price pilots a button-eyed, beak-nosed, slack-jowled crew of slovens through a maze of organized chaos. "I never saw two fighters more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful & Weird | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Tools are rudimentary, say Men Who Know Only a knife, a pair of blurt pliers, a pair of needle nosed pliers, a file, a hammer a drill and a set of assorted bits a pair of shears, a bench rise, a jeweler a screwdriver, and a simple soldering iron are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Brew Barons Reveal Plans to Make Every College Student His Own Distillery | 11/21/1951 | See Source »

Having discovered this, the U.N. took the obvious course of insisting that the demarcation line would not be finally fixed until the other agenda items had been negotiated and disposed of. The Reds screamed foul; the U.N. proposal, they said, was not "in accordance with the letter of the agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Trap Avoided | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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