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Word: pops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent to the Senate the names of 272 nominees for postmasterships. Among them: Neva B. Quick, to be postmistress at Nichols, N.Y. (pop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Speak Softly | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...port of Tuyhoa. Among his principal objectives: to recover the headline initiative, revalorize the folks back home and convince the U.S. that his army was worth more aid. Two weeks ago, the Communists moved one division in three lightly equipped columns toward the royal Laotian capital of Luang Prabang (pop. 15,000). Presumably they could not hold the capital long with their extended supply lines. Their objective: to win headlines, increase the war weariness of the French Cabinet and public, and synchronize with the Big Four talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Battle for Headlines | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...peacock on a modernistic looking one. But--"Than a peacock I'd be prouder, If you'd shout I love you louder." One more try, Vag resolved. If I don't find something now, hell with it. He opened "This valentine is guaranteed. . " and then groaned slightly when a pop-out gorilla leered at him with the inscription, ". . . to scare the YELL out of you." I guess I'm just too old to appreciate these things any more, Vag mumbled as he hunched under his tweed overcoat, and strode with determined sophistication out the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roses Are Red. . . | 2/10/1954 | See Source »

...Last week in Rosenberg, Texas (pop. 6,210), Fernando Rodriguez, 35, went to jail for six months because his eight-year-old son, a repeat offender but too young for prosecution, broke into a barbershop despite a previous judicial warning to the father (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Growing Up | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...since the days when Red Grange was roaming the gridirons has ex-Sports-writer Westbrook Pegler found much to admire in men on the public stage. But last week Hearst Columnist Pegler, on a trip to the Dominican Republic (pop. 2,200,000), found a new hero: Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a series on Trujillo and the country he rules, Pegler wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Hero | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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