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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abilene, Texas, police saw a car being driven backwards several blocks, stopped three Hardin-Simmons University coeds who said they had borrowed a boy friend's car, had driven it much farther than they had planned to. were now driving it in reverse to back some of the mileage off the speedometer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...hear Nasser speak for the first time of "a Communist reign of terror," and to have Kassem denounce not the West but Nasser. And to hear the Communists, rather than the Western powers, accused of dividing the Arab nation was a welcome change. Yet those who now instinctively saw in Nasser a welcome new ally overlooked his own heavy and continuing dependence on the Soviet bloc. London's conservative Daily Telegraph noted the irony that it was Nasser who first invited into the Middle East the Communist forces that now opposed him so effectively. But more than irony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.A.R.: Death to Kassem! | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Kliphuis waited until the water rose to his lower lip. Then he saw that the water had stopped rising, and a small pocket of air remained at the roof of the car. This was the magic moment of the bubble-when the pressure on the inside of the car equaled that on the outside. Kliphuis slowly turned the door handle, which now opened easily, shot through the opening and surfaced. "You have to persuade the pupils to wait for the bubble and not panic," explained Teacher Herman Vos. "That's all there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Wait for the Bubble | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...publicity picture? The nice thing about them is that they don't look like me. If you had just seen the picture and then saw me on the street, you wouldn't recognize me. That's the whole point...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: 'The Guy Who Taught Us Math...' | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

...saw his come-from-behind victory in the Boston K. of C. Meet or his duel with England's Brian Hewson in the B.A.A. Games came away unhappy. And, on March 7, he produced one of the greatest efforts in track history by catching Hungarian Istvan Rozsavolgyi after all seemed lost, winning in a new world record time...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

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