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Word: obsessionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Sons Take Over. Gunman López Pérez was a slight, short, pencil-mustachioed Nicaraguan who had worked until lately as a salesman of phonograph records in neighboring El Salvador. He could never reveal his motive: witnesses counted 20 bullet holes in his body. But as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Shots at the President | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

But the forces seeking to unite Italy's divided Socialists are also considerable and involve more than just Socialists. So long as one-third of the Chamber of Deputies votes with Moscow, no true two-party system is possible in Italy, and there can be no effective alternative to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Artful Dodger | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

The challenges are many: the need for better schools, health, housing, power development, the peaceful use of atomic energy. Many Democrats, nonetheless, are blinded in their approach to these problems by "their obsession with the depression." Says the party of the future: Let us quit fighting the battles of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Handle of Faith | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

A flourishing sideline in paper caps has grown out of Ingram's obsession for cleanliness. When he borrowed $700 to build the first turreted White Castle hamburger stand at Wichita, Kans. in the '20s. he decided to give the customer 5? hamburger, a shiny counter and immaculate countermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMOTION: Caps on the Side | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Spare. In Cleveland, Frank T. Doane, 43, asked the Court of Common Pleas to order his wife not to bowl more than one night a week, complained that she considers herself too expert to play with him and that she spends four nights a week in the alleys, driven by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 16, 1956 | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

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