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Word: seeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article dealing with our difficulties with space expresses the kind of realism I like to see. It strikes me as fantastic almost beyond belief that American missilemen are not allowed just $105 million to speed up Saturn tests four years; yet American farmers are given some $7 billion to increase the food bills of the American people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...read your comments on the recent TV quiz show scandal [Oct. 19] with great interest-incredulity even. Why should anybody get excited about a fixed quiz show? It is quite obvious that the producers involved were simply delivering what the public wanted to see, namely, entertainment. Who cares whether a TV wrestling match is honest or not? Frankly, I can think of nothing duller than an honest quiz show, an honest wrestling match, or a play that captures dialogue exactly as uttered by real live people. It seems to me that the only group that has a legitimate gripe against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...shakes. At the top of the heap was the steel strike, nearly four months old and blighting the general economy. Instead of reaching agreement under presidential and public pressure, as Ike had hoped, the industry and the United Steelworkers were digging in for a prolonged battle of principle (see The Economy). Digging in behind them were such major industries as copper, shipping, railroads and meat packing in what promised to be the greatest labor-management confrontation since the sit-down-strike days of the 1930s. At stake was not only the prosperous pace of business but the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Healthy Outlook | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Just as he was recoiling from this disappointment, a head turned in the crowd and he saw Miss Schroeder. It was certainly her. Even from where he sat he could see her hair net and notice her attentiveness to her neighbour. Miss Schroeder occupied the place next to Lucius in the stacks, and their relationship was unclear, for they had never spoken. But often when she was out he would slip into her alcove and admire her books. And today she was at the game with someone else...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: To the Playing Field | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...quarterbacks except Charlie Ravenel are expected to see action this morning when the Crimson junior varsity football team plays the Princeton squad. Game time is 10:30 at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten J.V.'s Face Tiger Football Team | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

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