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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loyal Pepperpot. At one point, the school body was almost equally divided over the merits of a book on sex which had somehow found its way into the sacred precincts. Some of the girls, after a diffident look, decided the book was "icky." Frederika took the firm stand that anybody who thought a book like that was icky was pretty darn icky herself. A more serious controversy raged over the politics of Adolf Hitler, whom Freddy at first defended with all the stridency of most German youth of her generation. Girlish arguments over Hitler occasionally ended in tears at Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The King's Wife | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

According to West Coast air gossip, the F-100 is a sweet plane to fly. One test pilot who was flying it for the first time radioed back to earth: "If I were ten years older, this plane would be a great substitute for sex." It exceeded the speed of sound on its first test flight. So far it has logged more than 100 hours of flight, and very few bugs have shown up. North American claims that it is eight months ahead of its schedule, and can go into full production in three more months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chunky but Sweet | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...Well, I really couldn't say. Well, perhaps he's an outdoors sort of man. Have you seen the DOC--the Outing Club? They're pretty important people. Organizations are big up here, we use them as a substitute for sex...

Author: By Mary ELLON Reinert, | Title: A Sinister Plot | 10/24/1953 | See Source »

Carl Hall denied having killed Bobby. He said that another bum, a tattooed sex degenerate named Thomas John Marsh. 37, had shot the boy when Hall and Bonnie Heady were not around. Police were skeptical, but a nationwide alarm went out for Marsh's arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Man with Soft Hands | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

There are reasons for this mania to escape from an institution which is the pride and joy of other U.S. cities and towns. While school-age hoodlums are the small minority of students in New York, their precocious propensity for vandalism, gang "rumbles." narcotics, sex orgies and extortion make them an eternal menace in many a school. Even in quieter districts, the public-school child is still gulped up by the world's most enormous* -and in many ways its most faceless and impersonal-educational system. He becomes simply one by this autumn's figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys & Girls Together | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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