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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In five days and nights, she came apart at the seams more often than an overloaded grocery bag. Apart from the day she pendulated across the Avenida Atlântica glued into her briefest bikini (thus causing a three-car crash), almost nothing stayed on. That night, as she danced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: O Busto at Work | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

The U.S. Air Force popped a promotion list into the senatorial hopper, then waited for the what-for. On the roster: drawling Cinemactor and Reserve Colonel James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, once refused promotion to brigadier general two years ago (TIME, Sept. 2, 1957) after Maine's Senator Margaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Seattle's newly formed A & M Burglary Alarm Signaling Device Co. found nothing in the item to chuckle about. Although not named outright, A & M, the only such three-man firm in the city, declared that it was easily identifiable. A & M admitted that one of the trio had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Code v. Law | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

"Undertaker's Dial." To the nation's fast-growing telephone industry, a Kansas City undertaker named Almon B. Strowger made one of the greatest contributions. Strowger was convinced that a competitor was bribing the operator, trying to beat him out of business by snatching death calls intended for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Nothing to Chance. A. T. & T.'s efficiency goes far beyond machines. Almost every employee agrees that the company is a good place to work; it offers interesting work, stock purchase and pension plans, security and job advancement. But few deny that it is the nearest thing to regimentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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