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Word: sires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boys on Bicycles, in which the boys were boys, and the wheels were round. "As you grow older," Park said, "it dawns on you that you are yourself-that your job is not to force yourself into a style, but to do what you want." The result was to sire a new and on the whole gentler generation of San Francisco figure painters, most conspicuous of whom is Richard Diebenkorn (TIME color, March 17, 1958). Park, 48, who sold 14 canvases at prices from $500 to $2,000 in a one-man show at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE IMAGE AND THE VOID | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Maverick (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The summer reruns are finally over. In celebration. Maverick brings on Pappy, sire of the two most amiable scamps on the air. In this one, Jim Garner is still Bret, but he is also his own pappy, Beauregard. To compound the confusion, he also plays Bret impersonating Beauregard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...near Glastonbury, Conn. They sell the chickens to the hatchery men, who use them to breed the chicks, which in turn are sold to the broiler men to raise for the market. Of the nearly 2 billion chickens that are turned out for eating every year, Vantress' roosters sire 75%; Saglio's hens mother about 50% of the total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Pushbutton Cornucopia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...island's U.S. tourists, and the mother of two. Beth Jacobs is first of all in favor of marriage; secondly, she proposes to cut the rate of illegitimate births by contraception. The ideals of Planned Parenthood, U.S.-style ("Every child a wanted child"), baffle many a Jamaican sire, but the Beth Jacobs Clinic does its best to spread the word. Last week Mrs. Jacobs was on her way to the International Planned Parenthood Federation's sixth international conference in New Delhi to report on the results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMAICA *: Love v. Marriage | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...each) to the U.S., but luck was with Dr. Werthessen. He learned by chance that a Texas zoo had a surplus stock of dog-faced baboons-they had been bred in the zoo for 20 years, and the pack had had only two "old men" to sire all the offspring. This line breeding gave them a start toward genetic purity-a most desirable quality in research animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ape Trade | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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