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Word: snakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned and pointed to the billings at the side of the stage. Howardscope. Complete New Policy. Four Shows Daily. Winnie and Willie, Manny King & Co. Dick Richards (Golden Voiced). Shiva and Her Snake...

Author: By Harry K. Schwartz, | Title: Come Back, Little Shiva | 2/27/1954 | See Source »

Ever since Romulus and Remus, folklore full of children reared by wild animals has been passed on and diligently reported. In the manner of Kipling's fictional "wolf-suckled, snake-taught, elephant-advised" Mowgli, Ireland has produced a sheep boy, Africa a baboon boy who devoured 89 prickly pears in one sitting. Seven years ago, newsmen seriously reported that a gazelle boy, was found running, at 50 m.p.h., stark naked across the Syrian desert. (The giveaway clue: he was obviously accustomed to wearing clothes since his arms and face were tanned, but his body was white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wolf! Wolf! | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...musical scoring, generally too loud and obvious, intensifies the horror of these struggles for food. Grim marches accompany the centipede as he hunts for his luncheon, and a horn tootles mysteriously while a red and black striped burrowing snake wriggles his body in the sand. But Disney's humor comes out in the music as well. Square dance music and hilarious narration spice a scorpion courtship...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: The Living Desert | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...sexual charge and that to become sexually active and skillful is a sure cure for al most anything. It is not going too far to say that a large portion of the U.S. population regards sex. today with the same simple faith that their great-grandparents reserved for snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Sex or Snake Oil? | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...Although Pearl has never mixed in the Northwest's public v. private power squabbles, the choice raised charges from public powerites that he was hand-picked by private powermen. Pearl insists he has no partisan interest in public v. private power disputes, though he supports development of the Snake River's Hell's Canyon by multiple private dams instead of one public dam. His reason: the multiple dams will produce more power in less time. Said Pearl: "The question is not one of public v. private power, but one of economy and engineering facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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