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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cheapest We Spend." On Tuesday night he summoned a ten-man, bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders to his upstairs study for an after-dinner conference, with no aides present. The President insisted that the mutual-aid authorization bill represented a rock-bottom figure for U.S. security. Next day he went even farther. About a dozen White House newsmen, straggled into the office of Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty for the routine afternoon briefing. "Guess we won't need this," said one, indicating his note paper. Replied Hagerty: "I haven't anything to say to you today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Gutting of Foreign Aid | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

When a questioner at the Moscow World Youth Festival inquired about the "degenerate American comic-strip and rock-'n'-roll culture," top-ranking Red novelist and Propagandist llya Ehrenburg spoke mildly, once again showed himself to be an indicator of the changeable Soviet climate: "Whoever asked that question doesn't understand American culture, which has nothing to do with rock 'n' roll or comic strips. American culture is represented by Whitman, Dreiser, Hemingway^ and other men of genius." Continued the many-faced Ehrenburg, who toured the U.S. in 1946, roasted it for its slums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's hilarious spoof of Man- hattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock, Jayne Mans field as herself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Tashlin's story is a fable of Madison Avenue: Rock Hunter's success in making Stay-Put Lipstick, his ad agency's biggest account, stay put. Hunter's own dream of success: to rise from his untouchable caste as TV commercial writer to possession of his own jewel-encrusted key to the executives' washroom. This glorious consummation (duly sanctified by a heavenly choir on the sound track) is realized through Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield), a squealing movie siren noted for her "oh-so-kissable lips" and her favorite boast ("All my lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...Pentwater, Mich., Dairyman Claire W. Nelson explained that he let the radio blare women's screams gunshots and rock 'n' roll at his cows all day so that when "a stranger comes into the barn they aren't upset, because they've heard everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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