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Word: rocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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TEENAGERS all over are bypassing rock 'n' roll for rockets-not always with happy results. For news about kid rockets and how not to build them, see SCIENCE, The Young Rocketeers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...interwoven with the model girl who never drank, smoked or rock-'n'-rolled, who was equally adept on the violin or in a choose-up neighborhood football game, was another girl who emerged last summer. Three times police spotted Christine aimlessly wandering Westchester County highways at night in jeans and sneakers; three times they packed her back home. "She was unhappy, but she never said just why," observed a girl friend. "Maybe she was lacking in love and affection at home," suggested Patrolman Daniel Rosato, who picked her up in November, handcuffed her when she scratched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Ruin Around a Rebel | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...universities and colleges that are always crying for more money cut out 85% of the education courses and 98% of the journalism courses, they would save an enormous amount of money and at the same time advance knowledge. Of course, howls going up would make the mountaintops rock. The superfluous always howl when their milk is cut off. For the academic year of 1957-58, the education department of the University of Texas lists 351 courses. They are all to make teachers more banal-minded. God pity your pupils; don't blame them for not being educated. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Religiosity & Palaver | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...moviegoing public's tune, with nary a cinemactress in the top ten for the first time since the Herald started its balloting 26 years ago. Scratched in the past year: Marilyn Monroe and Kim Novak. The new all-male marquee names hailed as dollar signs by exhibitors: 1) Rock Hudson, 2) John Wayne, 3) Pat Boone, 4) Elvis Presley, 5) Frank Sinatra, 6) Gary Cooper, 7) William Holden, 8) James Stewart, 9) Jerry Lewis, 10) Yul Brynner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Best & Biggest | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Radio--twang plunk twang oh baby you jes' wait rock rock roll...

Author: By F. W. Byron jr., | Title: The Walls of Jericho | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

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