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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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(9 of 11) says that he is just a bit dubious at finding himself in step with the herd. The crystal-ball gazers predict that the national product will jump to a $500 billion rate in the first quarter, race on to $525 billion or better before leveling off at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

World by the Tail? Whether the U.S. achieves that goal and goes on to serve all the many millions around the rapidly developing world depends on whether the businessman competes to the fullest of his impressive abilities. One of the great debates of 1959 that is bound to continue on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Readers who know Henry Miller only by his reputation as the bogeyman of the U.S. Bureau of Customs generally are surprised to discover that in many ways the man is as moralistic as Cotton Mather, and not much more interested in writing fiction. He seems incapable of composing more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miller Expurgated | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Goldilocks the Victim. But even the present volume has its moments. With great glee, Miller lampoons the shock of the American tourist upon first encountering a Paris pissoir, adding: "I do not find it so strange that America placed a urinal in the center of the Paris exhibit at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miller Expurgated | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Pillow Talk. A songwriting satyr (Rock Hudson) and an interior decorator (Doris Day) share a party line-and more-in this flashy film. But Comic Tony Randall comes off with the pillow's best feathers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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