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Word: overnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After an overnight grilling. Jack Graham broke down, signed a statement (which he later repudiated) admitting that he had sneaked his surprise Christmas present into his mother's suitcase. It was no drill for shell jewelry. According to the investigators, Jack's Christmas present was a 14-lb. bundle of dynamite sticks, wired to two blasting caps and a timing device (probably a Westclox traveler's alarm clock) set for explosion in 90 minutes. This week there was speculation in Denver that if one passenger had not been late to his appointment with death, and Flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Christmas Present | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...subsidized housing project, of course, cannot rise overnight, and stop-gap measures are needed now. But high on the list of any new building plans should be a housing development with rents inside the range of married students' bank accounts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Homes Within Range | 11/23/1955 | See Source »

...Item I. Overnight the West worked out a common strategy. Molotov had accepted the onus of keeping Germany divided: the West would therefore see to it that the onus stuck. Promptly at 4 p.m., the conference came to order and Harold Macmillan took the floor. His voice was icy with anger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vyacheslav's Better Baggage | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...University-community project that has served in many American cities to solve civic problems and improve town-gown relations. The City Council should move to set up such a committee, and the two local universities should name official representatives to it. This action would not solve any problems overnight, but in the long run it might help Harvard and Cambridge, who have to live and grow together whether they like it or not, to achieve a future of happy co-existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Co-existence | 11/17/1955 | See Source »

...short for mass production. But the biggest reason is the economics of the auto in dustry. The industry has to progress by evolution rather than revolution, since astronomical tooling costs must be written off over a long period of years. Automakers cannot scrap their present piston-engine equipment overnight any more than they could immediately scrap their old transmission equipment when the new automatic shifts came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE RADAR BRAKE | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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