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Word: spoonfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wait, don't forget dessert! Ice cream soup with apple-pie. Good use for the soup spoon...

Author: By Anne Schneider, | Title: One Man's Meat | 7/17/1958 | See Source »

Your article on the Philippines and Mr. Garcia [April 21] is a gross understatement. Things are twice as bad as you relate. Political graft, moral corruption, and a general desire to be spoon-fed is the actual situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Things began on Friday afternoon, when a friend in Harvard's administrative hierarchy slipped him the word that he didn't get into Eliot House. For Mansley--the Montebank clan's silver-spoon-fed youngest generation (St. Mark's and BUtterfield 8)--it was a deliberate slur on his urbanity. Shaken and embittered and haunted by the persistent spectre of anachronism, Mansley did something a Montebank would never do; he went to the ISA Fair...

Author: By George Apley, | Title: Ulysses | 5/6/1958 | See Source »

...William Vincent Griffin, 72, longtime vice chairman of the board of directors of TIME, INC.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After Yale, where he took an LL.B. ('08) and a B.A. ('12), wise, devoted Bill Griffin started a business career without any sign of a silver spoon, became a trustee of the estate of James C. Brady and chairman of the board of the Brady Security & Realty Corp.; invested in Chrysler in the '205, was soon a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Manhattan, Continental Oil Co. and more than a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 27, 1958 | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...Rock 'n' roll is part of this generation," said the little man. "We were born with an atom bomb instead of a spoon in our mouth. And our whole life is the sustained debauchery of a spitting...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

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