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Word: stormed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rock Love (Fontane Sisters; Dot). An easy jump from the Fontanes' popular Hearts of Stone, but less comprehensible. Rock love is something a body has in the heart, like a steamship's giant gyrostabilizer, to keep from floundering on temptation or drifting with the storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...effect of the committee's action was to throw up such a legal dust storm that the air may never clear, thus forcing both Dixon-Yates and AEC to cancel the contract. The Democrats say that the previous committee had no right to grant a waiver while Congress was out of session. Thus, by rescinding the waiver, the contract is right back where it started and must now lie before the Joint Committee for 30 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Death for Dixon-Yates? | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Yesterday's five-inch snowfall and today's predicted storm probably will not be considered as valid excuses except in certain cases involving transportation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollment Drops to 4,340 As College Registers Today | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

Hurricane Hazel indirectly claimed another casualty Monday afternoon when an inexperienced workman, James Swain (shown on stretcher, above) fell 22 feet from a Yard tree, which he was mending after storm damage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Workman's Condition Called Poor After Fall from Yard Tree Monday | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

Last week Silver charged that at least 15 sellers of vacuum cleaners, food freezers, storm windows, "have gypped . . . our public out of millions." For example, the decoy couples called a station about a sewing machine advertised at $26.50. They were visited by a sharper who confided that the machine was not very good; its needle was apt to snap under heavy strain and could not be replaced. Then he offered a $50 discount on a $189.50 model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The TV Sharpers | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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