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Word: oed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doll-like houses with blue pagoda roofs, perched precariously 6,000 ft. up a mountain. In a bloodless revolution, they got their demands for an elected national council and an end to tax collection by landlords. But after a 29-day experiment in democracy, the Maharajah dispatched an S O S to India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIKKIM: Land of the Uphill Devils | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, is the President who lost his job in Batista's 1952 coup, went into U.S. exile and spent a graft-gained fortune toward Batista's overthrow. Hated by many of the rebels, Prío is back in his $1,000,000 mansion near Havana and counting on a voice in the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: THEY BEAT BATISTA | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...museum's collection, said Design Department Director Arthur Drexler, "includes very few of those mass-produced objects supposed to be characteristic o; our 'high standard of living.' There are no television sets, no refrigerators, no telephones, not because such objects are intrinsically unworthy but rather because their design seldom rises above the vulgarity of today's high-pressure salesmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Designing Man | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)* 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. Around the World with Auntie Maine, Dennis (3) 6. Exodus, Uris (7) 7. Victorine, Keyes (8) 8. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (6) 9. The Best of Everything, Jaffe (10) 10. The Rainbow and the Rose, Shute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Spencer Ervin 3L, William C. Hudson '60, Gail H. Jones '59, John B. Jones '62, Carola deP. Kittredge '60, Stephen I. Klass '59, John P. Leonard '62, Judith O. Ogden '62, Gavin R. W. Scott '58, and Margaret M. Spencer '61 will play minor leads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drumbeats Directors Announce Show Cast | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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