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Word: showering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surveying all the plus factors, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said that the business outlook is "far better than nail-biting pessimists think. The shower isn't over, but the sun shows signs of breaking through the clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Good Start | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...their daughters, and Miss Revlon ($2.98), a doll that can be outfitted with costumes ranging from a $1 smock to a fancy $250 mink coat. The little homemaker will find the appurtenances of the wonderful world of dolls more realistic than ever: from France comes an nin. metal shower ($9.95) that uses water, and from Japan a stove-and-sink combination ($3.95) with a burner that lights up and a tap that runs water, and a battery-operated automatic washing machine ($3) that washes doll clothes almost as efficiently as its adult counterpart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Challenge for Parents | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

President Eisenhower has failed to disguise the grim reality of Russian scientific advancements. Intending to maintain public complacency rather than risk alarm, he dispensed a warm shower of emotional confidence. His specious argument and vague exhortations should only draw attention to the weakness of his remedies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sacrifice for Action | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

First stop was before the four dramatic new buildings replacing the squalid hodgepodge of the capital's old Lagunilla Market. Starting strong, Ruiz Cortines came smiling through a confetti shower, visited each of the buildings, with a mariachi band blaring along behind. The President took a quick look at three other markets, sped through the city to dedicate a four-lane freeway crossing the city, flitted through the gleaming new laboratories of police headquarters, took an approving brief glance at the new dormitories and gymnasium of the fire-department annex, popped over to the new penitentiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Presidential Marathon | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Seven Zulus died that night a fortnight ago, but on the following afternoon when the Basutos, protected by a police guard, marched past the Zulu stronghold on the way back from burying one of their dead heroes, the Zulus struck back. Streaming behind a shower of stones from their government-built hostel gates with cries of "Idedele, idedele!" (Get out of the way!), they swarmed through the police lines; the police opened fire on the Zulus with pistols and Sten guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Tribal Instinct | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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