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Word: ruggeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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At his first press conference, Premier el-Kassim, 42, who sleeps on a pallet in front of his desk and is regarded as a rugged, strict and upright soldier, appeared to be anxious to show his good faith. He told of how he dreamed of wiping out corruption way back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: After the Blood Bath | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

¶ On life: "Giving is living," said Parkin Christian, 74, great-great-grandson of Mutiny on the Bounty's Fletcher Christian. Rugged (6 ft. 3 in.) ex-Magistrate Christian heads the Adventist Church on Pitcairn Island (in the South Pacific), whose inhabitants are all Adventists. "If only receiving," he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Booming Adventists | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Little magazine post-war prose suffers the same division, except it's a gap between old and new. The old: the grand-children of Twain and illegitimate sons of Hemingway who have come to confuse the simple sentence with literature and the monosyllable with wisdom--the crude words and rugged...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Big Little Magazines: Post-War Inflation in the Avant-Garde | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Timber Line. Vermont-born Llewellyn Sherman Adams grew up in the stern standards of rural New England, and he is stubborn, frugal and contradictory as only a rural Yankee can be. His parents were divorced after they moved to Providence, when Sherm was a boy, and he lived mostly with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Man in the Storm | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Moslem Joan. Abbane, 38, was typical of the single-minded fanatics who emerge from every revolutionary situation. Asked how he managed to stand the strain of terrorist activity, he snapped: "It's easy. I get up angry in the morning and I go to bed angry at night." Abbane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of a Diehard | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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