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Word: paneling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...zelle Pigalle: You criticize the people who make English subtitles for imported films. Granted, some of the idioms need to be made presentable, but are we being subjected to a panel of doting old hags and eunuchs? Surely the translators could have found a more appropriate translation for "Merde!" than "Ouch!" Ouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Five civilians, along with a detail from the 100-man battery, had already converted three Nikes that day: so routine was their operation that the no-danger yellow light glowed on the battery control panel. The team started its fourth and final conversion shortly after 1 p.m.-began a familiar process in which it removed a warhead, took off the old trigger and its brackets, replaced them with a new trigger and brackets. Somewhere in that process on the fourth missile there was a mishap. Suddenly the missile blew with a roar and a sky-searing pillow of orange flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Death in the Neighborhood | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...debate as a fierce debate or a hot debate, and these adjectives were used, not disparagingly, but in admiration. Adversaries are no more, except-if you will-on programs like those of Mike Wallace or John Wingate, where there is but a shallow pretense of intellectual substance. The panel has moderated them out of existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Shh! | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Studies of airmen and other volunteers in such settings have shown, says the School of Aviation Medicine's Psychologist George Hauty, that a man studying a dimly lit instrument panel or radar scope in darkness and total silence soon begins to see blips where there are none. Airmen reported: "The instrument panel kept melting and dripping to the floor." and "On several occasions the bank indicator showed a hippopotamus smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: OUTWARD BOUND | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...42nd annual meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board in Manhattan, a panel of economic experts took the view that no real business upturn is likely until next year at least. One of the big reasons for the pessimistic view: a new report from businessmen pointing to a further decline in spending for plant expansion that will last into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Doctor, Cure Yourself | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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