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Word: proudest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never made the same mistake again. Having left Craven for Lamb, she left Lamb for the Duke of Argyll. Entertaining a likely buck at the opera, Harriette would sigh: "His legs were so beautiful, and his skin so clear and transparent . . . and 30,000 a year besides." The proudest titles of Britain vied for her favor; the heirs to great fortunes rushed from Oxford and Cambridge to throng her opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Confessions of a Courtesan | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...five the wordless, spastic child grabbed a piece of chalk in the toes of his left foot, and showed that he had control of one limb. Between confinements, his indomitable mother taught him the alphabet. When he was seven Christy spelled out MOTHER. It was one of the proudest moments that Christy Brown, now 22, reports in his autobiography, My Left Foot (Simon & Schuster; $3). From that moment, though unschooled, Christy went on to painting and writing stories, always with his left foot. Relying on that same limb, he had himself thrown into a canal by his brothers, and swam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Left Foot Foremost | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...17th of 18 children of a Norwegian family, a vigorous, outspoken woman who looks years younger than she is (69). She travels all over Sweden by car, train and even on skis to run clinics, advises branch offices and lectures on birth control and sex relations. One of her proudest achievements has been the government decision to teach sex in schools, and she assiduously superintends it. I asked Mrs. Ottesen-Jensen what she teaches the young people. "I tell them that the important thing is that they must be in love," she said. "I tell the girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: SIN & SWEDEN | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...Caribbean should form a regional coalition to insure their economic and political stability. He was tremendously impressed with U.S. State Department careerists in the countries he visited, came to believe that they are far more capable of administering economic aid than the Foreign Operations Administration. He was perhaps proudest of his success in soothing, at least temporarily, the Central American feud between Nicaragua and Costa Rica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: The Trail of Informality | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Spotless & Frugal. N.Z.Z.'s stocky, pink-cheeked Editor Willy Bretscher, 57, who has worked on the paper for 37 years and been its boss for more than 20, is proudest of his daily's fight against Naziism. When a small band of Swiss Nazis began to sing Hitler's praises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thought v. Facts | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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