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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clamping Down. In Rotorua, New Zealand, Heslett Thompson, 22, lost his driving license for attacking a pedestrian who walked in front of his car, and biting off a piece of the man's ear.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Under One Roof. With his monocle, his grey, lavender-tinted gloves, his white forelock setting off Italianate good looks, Whistler cultivated an exotic showmanship to mask self-doubts about his craft. The company he kept added a satanic touch by being mad, neurasthenic, and sexually deviate or profligate. The most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scorpions & Butterflies | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Triumph in the West concludes Author Bryant's rationalization and happy acceptance of Alanbrooke's diaries as the handbook of Allied strategy. Bryant's pattern is the same: Alanbrooke coming up with the answers almost before the problems presented themselves; then low-military-IQ types such as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Once the Allies secured the Normandy landings, the Americans again got in the way. Why were they always complaining about cautious, tidy Montgomery when he was really taking the brunt of the battle? (The fact is that many military men, including Germans, feel that Monty could have taken his major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Oceanographers off San Diego dive to the bottom in the Navy bathyscaph Trieste.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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