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Word: pantsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Ordinary Frenchman. Pierre Poujade looks like a peasant and makes the most of it. He avoids ties in favor of turtleneck sweaters or open-throat shirts. His shoes are often unshined, his pants unpressed, his nails dirty, his light beard unshaven. He prefers his country red wine to champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: An Ordinary Frenchman | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

In 1916, the year after his father died, Len went to Washington, drawn there by Franklyn Hall's vivid stories of life in the capital. The lanky boy's life was far from vivid. He got a $50-a-month job with the Potomac Electric Power Co., thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Mahout from Oyster Bay | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Brother Matthew, Brother Bartholomew and Brother Stanislaus take their vows this week at the Servite Monastery on Van Buren Street in Chicago. Brother Stanislaus came from the Polish army and five years in a German prison camp. Brother Bartholomew came from the retail clothing trade in Chicago, where he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Monastery Jam | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

In the Midwest the snigger of the week was about the new "Benson tractor"-built without a seat, to accommodate farmers who have lost their pants. In Washington Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had little time for worrying about such Farm Belt jeers: he had on his hands an urgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rigid Minds, Rigid Props | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Allowing for much practical ellipsis and a few brazen disfigurations (it was Hector, not Paris, who killed Patroclus), the script by John Twist shows a commendable respect for the letter of the myth. It is the spirit that is Twisted. Homer's was a mythic drama in which gods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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