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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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At first his people called him "Show-boy." Then he became his government's Prime Minister. This year he became his Queen's Privy Councilor. His local admirers now also refer to him as First Citizen of the African Continent. But when it comes to titles, there seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: Who's Who | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

New Hampshire's Novelist Grace (Return to Peyton Place) Metalious blew into Manhattan, called a press conference, was soon berating Hollywood Producer Jerry Wald for more or less tricking her into writing her latest exposé of small-town wickedness. In agreement with most critics, Grace growled: "This isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

A healthy adult finback should have a slow pulse-only twelve to the minute or less. But by the time the Woods Hole scientists had it wired, the Provincetown specimen was sick at heart, its pulse racing at an uncetacean 27-still only one-third the rate of the excited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Beat | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Dr. Conn's technique is conventional: he gets the patient to look at a spot on the wall and concentrate upon a pleasant scene of his own choosing. As his hypnotic state deepens under the doctor's suggestions, pain subsides-provided he is not one of those patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hypnosis for Cancer Pain | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

After cranberries, caponettes. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming took aim last week at the plump, premium-priced table fowl, gave them both barrels, and shot down the nation's entire supply. Behind his action lay some farfetched reasoning that the chemical used to caponize young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Chickens | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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