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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including 19 homers) as a rookie last year, batted in 79 runs. Weighing only 170 Ibs., he depends on timing and strong wrist action to lift the ball. Said Cub Manager Stan Hack last week: "That boy's got no nerves. He's a real quiet, modest guy. After he hits a homer, he comes back to the dugout as if he done something wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sluggers | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...after firm final guidance from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, went Ambassador Ural Alexis Johnson, 46, able career diplomat and specialist on northeast Asia. This will be no glare-bathed conference on general principles like the Parley at the Summit; chances are that it will be a long, quiet conference grinding away at details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Eyes East | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...thinking that they ought to make life a little pleasanter and easier for their breadwinners; only here is the Ideal Male one who dedicates his life to the pampering of women. In India, for example, as recently as 1953, a woman was observed in the act of fixing a quiet room and a cool drink for a husband on his way home from work. In Dallas and Des Moines, as we all know, the ladies make a different kind of preparation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Male at Bay | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...rival parties were almost as explosive as the bombs which blasted a candidate's home, a political rally and an election meeting. But Election Day last week was a ritual as solemn as any that democracy provides. People wore Sabbath clothes, and there was a Sabbath-like quiet in the air. Some 800,000 voters, half of whom cannot speak or write the language of the country with any fluency, entered the polling booth, carefully selected a slip bearing that let ter of the Hebrew alphabet symbolizing their chosen party, inserted it into a thin brown envelope and, emerging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Ritual Day | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...spree one day, bought about eight houses in one day. I don't know why I did it; I didn't like most of them." But she liked the comparatively small, 27-room house in Beverly Hills that she now lives in. Says she: "It's quiet and cool, and 'W.R.' liked this house. It reminded him in a small way of San Simeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Tycoon Davies | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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