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Word: spring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearest male relative. In 1951 the Ranas were overthrown with surprising ease, and the Kings of Nepal came into their own. A democratic constitution, with points of resemblance to the legal systems of Britain, India and the U.S., was drawn up, and elections held last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Democracy Comes at Midnight | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Blackburn as Stanley is strong, masculine, and sincere, but there is little that is animal about him. He is no survivor of the Stone Age. Mr. Rabb would have us believe that Streetcar is "a study in survival." All that survives from this struggle is Stanley and his off-spring. Surely this sort of insensitive good-naturedness is not the emerging 20th-century...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...lived well, until a quarrel with his Kentucky wife ended in divorce, and in 1947 he decided to go back to the Middle East. He bought a small house in Damascus, married again and settled down to a simple life on skimpy savings and a U.S. Army pension. This spring he prepared for the hadj to Mecca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Hadj of Ahmed Murad | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

Self Zipper. For women who have a hard time zipping up the backs of their dresses, L.M.B. Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia is selling the Zip Master, a long nylon cord with a brass spring fastener that clips onto the slide tab. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...capture, brainwashing and reflex-conditioning of an entire American patrol during the Korean war. Before grinning Russian brasshats, he shows off his success. The Americans puff contentedly on yak dung cigarettes and delicately avoid G.I. profanity-they imagine they are attending a meeting of the garden club in Spring Valley, N.J. They are so thoroughly Pavloved, in fact, that they are ready to commit murder on signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pantless at Armageddon | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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