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Word: pressinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the eight professional pallbearers hefted the 700-lb., hammered copper casket out of Lawrence Quinn's Funeral Home in Jersey City, a solemn voice called out to the pressing crowd: "Hats, men." Of the hundreds on the sidewalk, only four men were seen to lift their hats as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: When the Big Boy Goes ... | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Announcement of the royal engagement was first made public in the princely palace of Monaco. Shortly afterward, Jack Kelly confirmed the news to a small group of friends at a luncheon at the Philadelphia Country Club, and afterward to a thundering herd of reporters and photographers at the graceful mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: The Philadelphia Princess | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

If Syngman Rhee persists in pressing his exorbitant claims, he will be slapped right back with a bill for utilities supplied by the U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Account Rendered | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

The revolutionaries, led by Central Bank President Epifanio Mendez Fleitas, were all Paraguayan admirers of Argentina's fallen dictator, Juan Perón. At one time, Stroessner himself was chummy enough with Perón to put his picture and Perón's together on Paraguayan postage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Christmas Plot | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

The candidate's flushed face wore a beatific smile. He elbowed his way through the pressing crowd in the Congressional Room of Washington's Willard Hotel, stepped onto a platform and picked up a coonskin cap. He put it on, took it off, waved it, put it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Practiced Hand | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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