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Word: queene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first trip to Europe in two years, his first to England in seven years, and everywhere the best linen sheets were being brought out and the silver polished. In Britain the President would go on TV with Harold Macmillan and rest a night as the Queen's guest on the Scottish hills of Balmoral. In Bonn some 150,000 school children provided with paper flags would get the day off to line the streets and cheer Ike's arrival. German officials scurried around for a limousine large enough to squeeze an interpreter as well as a secret policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Waiting for Ike | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...years that they have had their own nation, the Jews have been governed by only two women-Jezebel's daughter Athalia, who ruled Judea from 842 B.C. to 836 B.C., and Queen Salome Alexandra, who succeeded to the throne after the death of her husband in 76 B.C. Last week in Israel a third woman took over, but for the first two days not even members of the Cabinet knew it. Finally, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, 61, rose in the Cabinet to inform her colleagues that Premier David Ben-Gurion, 72, had set sail for a much-needed vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: First Lady | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...street fighter ever produced by Kiefer Junior High School in Springfield, Ohio, Davey Moore was rough and ready last week to defend his title against the man he had won it from last March: Hogan ("Kid") Bassey, the broad-shouldered son of a Nigerian farmer, and, by order of Queen Elizabeth, Member of the Order of the British Empire. Bassey's patriotic flair tickled Moore. "Bassey wants to win for his country," said he. "Well, that's nice. Me, I'm not fighting for any high ideals. I've got six big mouths to feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Street Fighter | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...sweet, childish voice that struggles to rise above the accompaniment was nursed through its 6,000th recording. For 16 years, barefoot Lata has been putting on sound tracks the songs that Indian actresses fake when they appear on the screen. Now, at 29, she is the undisputed and indispensable queen of India's "playback singers," with an output of 30 songs per week and more recordings to her name than any other singer in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA ABROAD: Indispensable Queen | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Ellery Queen (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The prima ballerina does a pratfall onstage. But her reputation is saved: it's murder. Cow-eyed Comedian Morey Amsterdam bounces through the rerun of Dance of Death with the graceful assistance of Ballerina Tamara Geva. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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