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Word: stampedes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern poetry is the sick man of the arts. Precious, arid, obscure, it sometimes seems too feeble and withdrawn to be nursed back to life. Indeed, modern poetry has played the game of ten little Indians with its readers for so long that in recent years neither London nor New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Magazine in Manhattan | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Though leprosy is finally coming out into the open, where it can be treated and, in many cases, cured, there is still much to be done in breaking down the fears of those who hide their symptoms rather than risk ostracism from society. The best estimates place current leprosy cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leprosy Contained | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

Admittedly, most of the '46 heroes are gone now. Of the three remaining, Al "Red" Schoendienst has had his driving license stamped "Restricted to Glasses," and Stan Musial has trouble loping in from the outfield. And poor Ted Williams, though still the most popular slugger since Babe Ruth, doesn't...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 4/17/1956 | See Source »

In Manila, where Dulles announced that the U.S. will build its atomic research center for Asia in the Philippines, he left behind elation and renewed morale. In Taipei and in Seoul he held friendly conferences with Formosa's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and with Korea's President Syngman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Back to the Factory | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Filing into Manhattan's Loew's State Theater, some 800 stockholders booed and jeered, stamped their feet, shouted raucous questions. Cried one stockholder: "Come out punching. Let the best man win." At that stockhofders started to punch, wanted to know why Loew's was not doing more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Trying Times | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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