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Word: persons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost nightly explosions and the crack of rifles along the highway were the union's response. Surprisingly, only one person was seriously injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Struggle in Dixie | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Miss Bel Geddes and Fonda turn in fairly wooden performances, but there is not much they can do with a script that requires them to mouth such gems as, "God, you're sweet" The minor parts are not badly done, but this is essentially a two-person play. And that includes the audience...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Silent Night, Lonely Night | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

...Faculty meeting. When the discussion became dull, four professors who were sitting next to each other started to gossip. Each of them, it turned out, had Gene Robertson in his class, and knew of Gene's defection. "Let's visit him," one said. "When the boy meets us in person, he will see the light." "Knowledge is a wonderful thing," they told each other incidentally, "and we will (and have and shall for evermore) tell him what is important...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Those Who Dare | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

Speaking to a reasonably square audience in Boston, opinion-crammed Anthropologist Margaret (Coming of Age in Samoa) Mead, 57, turned her withering gaze on the beatniks, did her high-level best to define one: "A person who can't tolerate the meaninglessness of the low level of goodness, and just because it is both low level and good casts his artistic rebellions in bizarre and often misunderstood forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...guest shots. Comic George Jessel has a knack for veering the conversation to Bulova watches. While palavering with Jack Paar before millions of viewers not long ago, Georgie went on and on about his watch, a Bulova. When being Person to Personed by Ed Murrow, Jessel lovingly showed off five clocks in his house; all five were gifts from Bulova. (Genial Georgie insists neither mention was intended as a plug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Block That Schlock | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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