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Word: pearse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was, naturally, the season for strange visions-and Sputniks 1 and 11 made them more natural. From virtually every region in the U.S. last week poured frantic reports of U.F.O.s-unidentified flying objects. This time, as the U.S. Air Defense Command tabulated reports (no fewer than 128), the sightings from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Dinner Time | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Pears & Hazelnuts. For a while Gulek tried to counter the police with Gandhian tactics-simple handshaking tours. For the last 100 miles of his trip he abandoned ship and moved by car along the lush southeastern shore of the Black Sea, where the corn grows eight feet tall and string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: A Scalp for the Taking | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Each night, wherever he went, former Minister of the Interior François Mitterand was pelted with aged pears, tomatoes, oranges and occasional root vegetables selected for their hardness. Ex-Premier Mendès-France, breezing out of one rally to address another, narrowly dodged a left hook and threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tomorrow's Secret | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

I told Kirk that if I do it, it won't be a gag. I'll really take the beard off. They're liable to send me back to the barber business if this keeps up." Como lives a relaxed home life at Sands Point, L.I., where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A World of Nice Guys | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

It may seem rather inane to characterize Paris Review 10 as a few writers and poets trying very hard to say something. Of course they try to say different things, but that is categorically unimportant. What is significant lies in the ardor and carnestness with which most of the writers...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey jr., | Title: The Paris Review 10 | 11/1/1955 | See Source »

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