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Word: spotless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas (8-1)-had-its spotless record spoiled by Texas Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...their own fashion, Laotians last week gave a red-carpet welcome to the fact-finding subcommittee sent by the U.N. Security Council to determine formally whether Laos is a victim of foreign Communist aggression. There were no military bands, no spotless guard of honor, no protocol-wise assemblage of local diplomats. Instead, hundreds of lissome girls wearing flowing silk scarves and brilliant sarongs trimmed with gold appeared at the airport bearing silver bowls of flowers. It was the traditional Laotian "welcome in beauty," which requires that the wisest and most beautiful girls of a village greet an important stranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Welcome in Beauty | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...some strange reason, it causes only benign tumors. So far, Drs. Stewart and Eddy have not been able to infect monkeys with their virus, but a determined effort to do so is under way at Roswell Park Institute. Patricia, a lone baby monkey harboring polyoma virus, has her own spotless nursery where she is cared for by Nurse Althea Higgins. Drs. Stewart and Eddy have gone a vital step farther, treated their virus with rabbit serum, and made a vaccine that protects a big majority of normally susceptible animals against the polyoma virus' effects. At Sloan-Kettering Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cornering the Killer | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Mexico's rugged Taos Canyon, Ranger George E. Engstrom, 47, prowled through one of Carson National Forest's 22 picnic and campgrounds. The camp site was spotless. One reason was that Ranger Engstrom has a reputation for taking litterbugs to court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. National Forests: The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...rainy afternoon last week President Sukarno tried to find the way back for himself and his country. Dressed in a spotless white uniform, with a black petji set jauntily on his head, Sukarno stood under a brown awning on the columned porch of his Freedom Palace and, "in the name of the one and only God." announced the revival of the 1945 revolutionary constitution. His fiat swept out of office the 17th government to rule Indonesia in 14 years, dissolved the Constituent Assembly, emasculated some 40-odd political parties and caused the resignation of the 27-man Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Good Old Days | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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