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Word: pops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size (pop. 45,000), the Wisconsin city of She-boygan-"the greatest little town in the world"-may well be the most hate-ridden community in the U.S. Passing on the street, men who used to be coworkers, neighbors and friends now glare at each other in deep-frozen enmity. At night, normally law-abiding citizens vent their gnawing hatred against their enemies in acts of vandalism: slashing automobile tires, scattering nails in driveways, hurling glass jars filled with paint through house windows. Sheboygan's hate reaches even to the children: an everyday sight is a tight-lipped child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALMOST SINFUL STRIKE: Four Years & Stubbornness Have Torn a Town | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...campaign "will not affect our personal friendship in any way." Also in the running: former U.S. Representative Thomas J. Dodd, who tried for the Senate in 1956, felt that the state machine failed to back him, this year has virtually sewed up his own powerful bailiwick of Hartford County (pop. 619,000) and much organizational support, may well mow down both Benton and Bowles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Benton Y. Bowles | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...recorded radio beat of tom-toms throbbed through the city of Accra (pop. 200,000). Barelegged, toga-clad Ghanaians danced down to the beach for a mass picnic, snaked through the streets in roaring torchlight procession, cheered the unveiling of a larger-than-lifesize statue of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 48, "Founder of the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: Stable Anniversary | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Pop Singers: Paul Anka, Harry Belafonte, Al Kibbler, Johnnie Ray, Sarah Vaughan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Culture for Export | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Gioconda (Anita Cerquetti, Franca Sacchi, Mario del Monaco, Cesare Siepi, Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini; conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni; London, 3 LPs). A first-rate cast gives a racy reading to Amilcare Ponchielli's old campaigner from Venice, proves that there is a lot more to it than its pop-concert Dance of the Hours. Mellow-voiced Soprano Cerquetti gives a superb performance as "the joyous female" of the title role who loses her blind mother and her lover before she plunges a dagger in her heart. Tenor del Monaco sings so gustily that he conceals the fact his Grimaldo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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