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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also offers the fun of watching an eye-rolling, lip-twitching Robert Newton as he wallows outrageously through the role of Long John Silver, one of fiction's most ingratiating scoundrels. Disney apparently liked him well enough to let him steal the whole treasure (as well as the picture), instead of the single sack of coins that Stevenson let him get away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

After four hours, a chief spoke up. "Well, Barnes, goddammit," he said, "it looks like you've got just what us birds up here need." For $10,000 Barnes agreed to spray the clouds, with silver-iodide particles for three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Sky Father's Little Helper | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Princess lleana, sister of Rumania's ex-King Carol, was being treated for arthritis in Boston. She was also hawking her mother's crown, a silver kokoshnik (tiara) set with seven sapphires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Inside Sources | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Casual clothes: What you're stuck with when everyone else is wearing silver fox jackets over bathing suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: One Man's Poison Ivy | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Died. Ella Florence Underwood, 100, last surviving member of the Oneida Community, a financially successful communal settlement (Oneida Silver) which practiced both promiscuity within its own group and stirpiculture; of a heart attack; near Oneida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 3, 1950 | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

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