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Word: slice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uneasy stirrings of Afro-Asian self-determination cast a harsh glare on the turgid cataract of independence and democracy, per se, as they sink their roots ever deeper into the rich brown soil of the ancient Fertile Crescent, that strife-ridden slice of the mordacious Middle East which includes the Bedouins of Syria, the Riffs of Jordan, the fiercely patriotic people of brave little Israel, the Nomads of the Saudi-Arabian wastelands, the oil-rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Pedant in the Levant | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

...Felsenstein, opera is a highly seasoned slice of life; to Wallmann, it is musical pie-in-the-sky. East Berlin's Turandot, staged by Felsenstein Protégé Joachim Herz but supervised by the boss himself, stressed naturalistic stage effects, an infinite concern for dramatic detail, and acting of startling realism. The curtain rose on an iron grille stretched across the proscenium, representing the palace gate separating the chorus of rag-clad Chinese from the palace courtyard, where one of Turandot's unsuccessful suitors was about to be executed. The mob faced the audience in silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two Faces of Turandot | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Expenses of integrating his new companies will slice Standard's earnings to about $1 a share in 1958. In 1959 Chandler expects to do better, though convertible stock, which Standard has issued to buy one company and stock options, could dilute per-share earnings by as much as 35% if converted into common. Chandler expects potential profits from new products to help make up for any dilution. Among them: plastic-coated punch cards that would last longer than present business-machine cards, and paperboard containers for oil. In Chandler's office are six paperboard containers, shaped like milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Growing Package | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...horseback, had switched to tanks by World War II; last year at Fort Rucker, he took over the whirring, still-experimental cavalry of the sky. The general loved his "choppers," once said: "Like Wellington's cavalry, the helicopter can strike like a wolfpack and bite. It can slice and run, pull back and hit the other side. A chopper can be as low as a man on a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...after reading this beautiful beeography, can again regard a spoonful of honey as merely a convenient way of disposing of a slice of toast. And only a captious reader will complain of sedulous Apiarist Crompton's unholier-than-thou attitude toward the bee. The bee is better than me, seems to be his buzz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bee Around Us | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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