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Word: slendering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the Iron Curtain, the dancing genius of slender, 41-year-old Galina Ulanova was mainly legend. She had danced publicly only in the Soviet Union, had rarely traveled outside its borders. Last week, for the first time, a representative Western European audience had a chance to see Ulanova dance in a concert performance at Florence. The general verdict: she is the world's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bis! Bis! | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...four lines using Stratocruisers. One line (United) got $1,200,000 worth of free parts. At home with his family, Rentschler relaxes-like an engine idling. He usually takes a Martini or two before dinner, and may sip champagne afterward. With both daughters married, he and his slender, attractive wife Faye live pretty much by themselves. Winters they spend in their Spanish villa near Florida's Boca Raton Club, where Rentschler plays tennis well enough to take on ex-Wimbledon Champion Fred Perry. He travels back & forth to East Hartford-as well as everywhere else-by plane. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Mr. Horsepower | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...valley is quiet, with only a scattered coming & going of military vehicles from White Sands Proving Ground (Army Ordnance) or Holloman Air Force Base. But sometimes a screaming roar echoes among the mountains, and a monstrous bird with a tail of flame flies straight into the sky. Or a slender, dartlike object slips out of the belly of a B-29 and streaks over the horizon at several times the speed of sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birds of Mars | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...crates or an old army cot on which to display their wares. Some lay their little collections on the ground, brushing away the dust which sifts off Bell Street. They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll. Some have rice, flour, corn, and cotton cloth. They get the food in devious ways. One said that he had his rice from a Department of Justice employee, another said his came from a South Korean soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Market In Seoul | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...intelligence, rose in one week from 600,000 to 700,000. General Omar Bradley, briefing the National Security Council in Washington, said that a million Red troops were assembled in Manchuria. That made a total of 1,700,000 men available for immediate or eventual use against the comparatively slender (275,000) U.N. forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Gloom Again | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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