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Word: pipering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young editors, ten-year-old Tommy Piper of Lock Haven (Pa.), reported the gist of it all in terse journalese: "The President . . . told about why he had come from Florida. The reason was very simple. He had come to talk to us so we would grow up to be good men like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Follow the Gleam | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...extremely moving, especially when Pirman Treeu battles with an ever-increasing host of unicorns to win Columbine. Treeu is one of the most powerful and graceful dancers that I have seen in this medium. Praise should also go to John Cranko for the fresh, wierd choreography and to John Piper for effective costumes and decor...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet | 3/20/1952 | See Source »

...Piper's Pay. In Manchester, England, Kenneth Simpson went to jail for three months for stealing a lead pipe in order to raise money to pay a month-old fine for stealing a lead pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

While Savitt sulked, the Aussie tennis fans fidgeted in their seats and shouted: "Come on and play, Savitt!" Referee Piper shrugged his shoulders and left the court to get help from a higher authority, Sir Norman Brookes, president of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association. During the five-minute discussion that followed, Sir Norman put his arm around Savitt's shoulder and pleaded with him to play. Still sulking, Savitt turned his back. Finally, 13 minutes after his walkout, and at the earnest urging of his doubles partner, young (18) Ham Richardson, Savitt went back on to the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comeuppance Down Under | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Back to Work. He firmly believes that the election of '32 was a greater catastrophe than the crash of '29. "We put into office as our Chief Executive a Pied Piper ... a gifted madman." If Jeff confuses the state of the nation with the state of his soul, it is because Author Jonas has failed to give him one. Swinging through the jungle of his mind on one rotting cliche after another, Jefferson Selleck finally decides that "courage to keep the whole show running" is the only value he knows much about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Babbitt | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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