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Word: pressinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the sprawling expanse of Southern California, candidates in the California primary were almost as plentiful on the streets last week as palm trees. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Attorney General Edmund Gerald ("Pat") Brown, roamed Los Angeles, pressing hands and arguments. Both G.O.P. senatorial candidates, Governor Goodwin J. Knight and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: California Poll | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

On the one side was President Camille Chamoun, a Christian of the Maronite Roman Catholic sect, with all the claims upon U.S. good will of a stoutly pro-Western leader who has led his little country from its Swiss-modeled neutrality at the heart of the Arab world to all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: When Compromise Is Victory | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Profit in His Own Land. In midweek Van moved to Philadelphia and the same kind of reception. After his concert at the Academy of Music, he escaped through a shrieking crowd that tore the handles from the doors of his limousine. In Washington, before his concert at Constitution Hall, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hero's Return | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Three Chimps First. With all these pressing medical problems to be solved, why does man feel himself impelled toward, the dark unfathom'd caves of outer space? For one thing, despite his physical and emotional inadequacies, he is still a space-saving, weight-saving gadget compared with any electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: OUTWARD BOUND | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

From the Union lines, behind the stone wall on the crest of Cemetery Ridge, First Lieut. Frank A. Haskell looked down on the forming ranks of the Confederacy: "More than half a mile their front extends; more than a thousand yards the dull grey masses deploy, man touching man, rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Thick of Things | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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