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Word: pantsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joining the career foreign service at the top in 1950, Peurifoy soon showed that he was a diplomat of a different sort. He preferred open shirts and slacks to striped pants, driving his fast cars to riding in limousines, and man-to-man talk to courtly ambiguities. In Athens, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Smiling Jack | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

Came Stalin's attempt to grab Greece, and the lovers took to the hills, where Niko raised the banner of bloody civil war. While Niko burned peasant villages and liquidated the old-line Communists who stood in his way to power, Roula, in her low-cut blouses and skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Red Boss's Wife | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

The Maya Kekchi Indians furtively examined the big, bearded explorer in his Bedford-cord riding breeches and decided that here was the man to revitalize their dying tribe. They led to his jungle hut the fairest of their maidens, eyes downcast and breasts bare, and delivered a proposition from their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man with a Brass Neck | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

Lieut. Colonel Alfred Daniel Wintle, retired, sometime of the Royal Artillery, First The Royal Dragoons, and Eleventh Hussars, is a small, furious, ramrod-straight man who wears a monocle and believes in taking things into his own hands. Through his one good eye he views the world with the wary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Here Is an Englishman | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Squeaking with enthusiasm, Campy keeps a chatter of encouragement flowing back to the pitcher. "Come on, roomie," he will holler at his road-trip roommate, Don Newcombe. "Hum that pea." Neither Newk nor anyone else is permitted a moment's carelessness. Once, when Don Newcombe crossed up his catcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Man from Nicetown | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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