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Word: pots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute of Bernstein's life that escapes the other four. Occasionally fortified with Dexamyl, he copes with interviews, conferences, half a dozen different agents, the management of his income (an estimated $100,000 last year), greenroom receptions and after-concert parties ? at which lie may call for a pot of caviar and talk lucidly for hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wunderkind | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...Gamal Abdel Nasser for blockading the Suez Canal. At the annual banquet of the West Central Texas Oil & Gas Association came more kudos. "As the person who has done the most for West Central Texas oilmen," Nasser was voted the members' "extinguished service" award: a bright pink chamber pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Independents for Nasser | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

NOVEMBER A Cambridge Crime Commission accuses Harvard Criminoligist William McCord of being the local Mafia leader. Atomic submarine the Nautilus is destroyed by an unknown assailant. A Radcliffe senior finds a pot of gold at rainbow's end and walks away from it. "I don't accept presents from a strange Man." The Brattle Theater purchases Radio City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

With the delicate, fragrantly bland character of a pot of jasmine tea (which isn't everybody's dish), India's exotic Nehru poured himself-rosebud and all -into the nation's teacup, there for all to sniff and sip. After leaving Ike, he drove to the National Press Club to face Washington's tough newsmen, was introduced irreverently as "the mystical man in the middle." His 45-minute performance was admirable: deft, quiet, elusive, charming, and at times, productive: Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Reading the Tea Leaves | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...answering the question, "But how make you gentles [i.e., fly larvae] to keep them?" the Arte says: "Of a piece of a beast's liver, hanged in some corner over a pot or little barrel, with a cross stick and the vessel half full of red clay; and as they wax big, they will fall into that troubled clay and so scour them that they will be ready at all times." On the same subject, Walton says: "You may breed and keep gentles thus: take a piece of beast's liver, and with a cross stick hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worthy of Perusal | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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