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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past six years, federal customs sleuths have been impounding, as fast as it poured into the U.S. from Europe and the Orient, a vast collection of erotica consigned to the Institute for Sex Research of Indiana University's Sexpatiator Alfred C. Kinsey. The Government last week gave Zoologist Kinsey and his sexociates until this month's end to show why the treasure-trove of pornography should not be destroyed. Protested Kinsey: "The issue involved is the right of a scholar to have access to material which is denied the general public." Among the material that the federals would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...monk. In due course Marina, too, became a monk, and was accused of getting a local innkeeper's daughter with child. Dismissed from the monastery to live as a beggar at its gates, Marina uttered not a word in self-defense. Only when she died was her sex and innocence discovered. The lying innkeeper's daughter went out of her mind but was cured when she prayed for Marina's heavenly intercession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 2,565 Saints | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...Sex & Size. Somewhere in the byplay New Jersey's fat (330 Ibs.), jolly T. James Tumulty was needled with the gentle observation that he straddles too many fences. "My dear man," replied Democrat Tumulty. "I am so large I could represent all sections.'' Twitted Pennsylvania's Republican Jim Fulton: "The gap between the front and back of this Democratic Party is just big enough for you to fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spitballs in the House | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

California Republican Gordon McDonough decided that the bill's specification on discrimination for reasons of "color, race, religion or national origin" should include "sex" as well (amendment adopted). Texas Democrat John Dowdy tried to add "people over 40" (amendment killed); Tumulty called for the inclusion of "size" (shouted down). Louisiana Democrat Edwin Willis wanted to strike out virtually the whole bill with his amendment (killed). Texas Democrat Martin Dies offered some restrictive rules of procedure for the civil-rights investigating commission (adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spitballs in the House | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...past eleven years, the G.I. has been remarkably popular in West Germany, and the German press, on the whole, restrained in its treatment of G.I. lapses. This era of good feeling was now in jeopardy. "Gangsters and sex maniacs who still today believe they can treat our wives and daughters as game are undesired here," editorialized the sober official gazette of Rhineland-Palatinate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Undesirables | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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