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Word: plaines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 preachers, military personnel, engineers and just plain folks were not restricted simply to flying saucers. The pronouncements seemed to shape into a sort of celestial dinner pail: the objects resembled eggs, meat platters, pears-and, for dessert, ice cream cones and cigars. ¶In the Levelland area of Texas, at least seven people sighted what may have...

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

...this was a tribute to the cultivated taste and shrewd buying of a comparatively little-known French financial wizard who rarely paid over $10,000 for a painting, rarely made a bad buy. Born in Paris plain Leon Georges Levy, he early attracted the attention of the Rothschild family, who started him off as a clerk in the Rothschild bank, used him as a broker for their interests when he went into business for himself. He was soon collecting art. Just before the fall of France, he sailed for the U.S. (where he changed his name to Lurcy), managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Greatest Auction | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...make this accusation out of any hidden desire to see our own team carry the day. It is a plain case of justice: three men have violated the civil law and must be punished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Stern Demand | 11/16/1957 | See Source »

...hopeless disarray. The author of The Member of the Wedding has written on a variety of themes, in a variety of tones, at a variety of tempos. Possessing sufficient material for several plays, Square Root, for lack of integration, largely comes off no play at all. It makes plain throughout, not least by way of hate, that the square root of wonderful is love. Its parts are not only greater than the whole; they also destroy the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...home seemed unmoved at the news (although a maid did set the dogs on reporters), and Al's family decided not to ask the Roman Catholic Church to bury him (another brother, the Rev. Salvatore Anastasio, is a Bronx priest). He was put away quietly in a plain old $900 coffin-although another brother, Joe, got a $6,000 box when he passed on (of natural causes) last year, and $15,000 worth of flowers to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laughing Matter | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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