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Word: puts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number two position, Tim Gallwey was able to win only one game in losing to Navy's Ed Lowry. Frequently hurrying his shots and dropping many into the tin, Gallwey lacked his usual accuracy and was often put off balance by Lowry's powerful serve...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Squash Varsity Eliminates Navy As Emmet Continues Undefeated | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...humble opinion, the man of 1959 was the Soviet scientist who gave the U.S.S.R. its greatest propaganda gains this year, put the first rocket on the moon, shot a rocket around the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...when it was called for. When a new naval aide reported to him for duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral: "If you dumped a messy problem in his lap, he would somehow tidy it up and put it neatly in a package and dispose of it. He was the best Navy Secretary we ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: First Team Going In | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...reigning force in Louisiana politics. Barred by law from succeeding himself and harried by doctors as he was chased in and out of mental hospitals (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Ole Earl, 64, tried to get himself nominated as next Lieutenant Governor in the free-for-all primary, put a hand-picked successor in as Governor. He cagily passed a bill to change the Democratic primary date from traditional Tuesday to work-free Saturday, thus tried to lure all the Long-loving back-country people down to the voting machines. But even the backwoods had seen enough; neither Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Ole Earl's Downfall | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...partner, has shown a lofty lack of concern for German sensibilities. So far, his government has made no public apology for the French navy's high-seas seizure six weeks ago of the West German freighter Bilbao, suspected of carrying arms to the Algerian rebels. De Gaulle has put it more bluntly than anyone else: he regards the present frontiers between Poland and Germany as permanent and dismisses the German dream of recovering the "lost provinces." De Gaulle is obviously no enthusiast for a reunited Germany that would be bigger in population than France. In his memoirs (now compulsory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: An End of One's Own | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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