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Word: pantsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The Honorable Henry T. Coe, a Briton traveling to California with 26 cases of ginger beer. Wears striped pants and kid gloves; constantly jots down notes for a book called An Amble Over the Rockies. Part of the amble is described by McPheeters Sr. in letters to his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold Rush Huck Finn | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Clad in floppy hospital coat and pants, Airman Donald Gerard Farrell grinned, "Well, here goes," and clambered into a weird contraption at Texas' Randolph A.F.B. It looked like a home furnace -3 ft. wide, 6 ft. long, 5 ft. high-encrusted with tanks, pipes and electric cables. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rehearsal for Space | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Stones & Ecstasy. Last week, in his deep, sleepy, Godfrey-like voice, Gibson scattered pearls of wisdom from Seneca to Shaw, philosophized about unreasonable husbands, holes in pants pockets, in-laws, self-improvement, reformers and movie censorship ("Upon what kind of filth do these our censors feed, that they have become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Word Jockey | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

What constitutes the Princeton definition of "wonk" at Bickertime? The traits of a varied species can be most clearly grasped when combined into an extreme, idealized archetype, whose full obnoxious character each empirical individual but partially manifests and only for a brief time. To apprehend the Platonic essence, then, of...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Quest at Princeton For the Cocktail Soul | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

Unquestionably, much of it came from Wernher's mother, an enthusiastic amateur astronomer ("Odd," says Wernher von Braun, "but few mothers are"), who pointed out to him the planets and constellations in Prussia's clear night skies. "For my confirmation," says Wernher von Braun, "I didn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Reach for the Stars | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

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