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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Injunction or no, the unprecedented steel strike badly needed some kind of cooling-off period. Some industry men were talking grimly about a war of attrition that might rage on for an additional six months. The steelworkers were working hard to convince other unions that this was a basic fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: The Bind in Steel | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6--Oren Harris (D-Ark.), turning off a House investigation of quiz show rigging, said today Congress should pass new laws to assure program honesty and take a hard look at other channels of television activity.

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: UN Questions Laotian Charges That Chinese Invaded Viet Nam; Harris Seeks TV Practices Law | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Fortunately, to protect his eyes from the outside glare, he had long ago secured a cubicle removed from the windows. As the librarian had cheered him, it was "one of our less gay places." But the disturbance in the Square had been enough to take the full sharpness off Lucius...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: To the Playing Field | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Once a decision was made, Lucius always carried it through ruthlessly, and rolling down his sleeves, he wrapped his fork and prepared to set off. Moments later he went right on out of the library, hardly recognizing the amazed bookchecker as he passed. After pausing briefly to get directions, Lucius...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: To the Playing Field | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Flattered by this attention, Lucius decided it was time to really do things properly. There was a little of the Dionysian in Lucius too, and as a vender went by hawking food, Lucius raised his voice, "Please, one frankfurter." He sacrificed the coin and in a moment the frankfurter was...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: To the Playing Field | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

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